Biography
Sijie Hu is an Assistant Professor at the Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences and the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Hong Kong. She received her PhD (2021) in Economic History from the London School of Economics and Political Science, and her BA (2014) and MA (2016) from Renmin University of China. Before joining HKU, she was an Assistant Professor of Economic History at the School of Economics, Renmin University of China.
Her research interests centre on Chinese economic history, historical demography, and population economics, with particular emphasis on demographic change, social mobility, and human capital formation in Ming–Qing China. She is currently engaged in projects investigating micro-demographic dynamics in traditional Chinese society through large-scale genealogical data.
Sijie Hu is currently the coordinator and moderator of the Quantitative History Webinar Series. She is also leading our demographic research projects.
Find out more about our QH Webinar Series: Webinars – Centre for Quantitative History
