Date(s)October 17, 2025
Time09:30 - 17:00
May Hall, HKU
Language(s)English
Programme | Presenter | |
09:30-10:00 | Reception and Welcome | |
Session 1. Chair: Chicheng Ma (HKU) | ||
10:00-10:30 | Meritocracy and the Networks It Forged: China’s Imperial | Ying Bai (CUHK) |
10:30-11:00 | The Micro-Evidence for the Malthusian System: China, 1350–1900 | Sijie Hu (HKU) |
11:00-11:20 | Tea Break | |
Session 2. Chair: Mark Hup (CUHK) | ||
11:20-11:50 | Connecting Rebels, Empowering States: Communication Technology and Social Unrest in Qing China | Yu-Hsiang Lei (HKUST) |
11:50-12:20 | Psychological Change and Kinship Intensity in China over Two Millennia | Yuqi Chen (HKU) |
12:30-14:00 | Lunch (By invitation only) | |
Session 3. Chair: Carol Shiue (HKUST and Colorado) | ||
14:00-14:30 | A Thirst for Silver: Currency Shortage and the Institutional Cause of Conflicts in Nineteenth-Century China | Ting Chen (HKBU) |
14:30-15:00 | The Tokenization of Rank During the Qin Conquest, 230-221 BCE | Chun-Fung Tong (HKU) |
15:00-15:30 | Banking and Innovation: Evidence from the Industrial Revolution | Jinlin Wei (HKUST) |
15:30-16:00 | Tea Break | |
Session 4. Chair: Yiming Cao (HKU) | ||
16:00-16:30 | Colonial Networks and Firm Growth in South Korea’s Industrialization Era | Sangyoon Park (HKUST) |
16:30-17:00 | International Trade, Commodity Production and the Skill Premium: Evidence from Colonial Indonesia | Mark Hup (CUHK) |
18:00 | Dinner (By invitation only) | |