7 August

9.15am-9.45am: Registration

Location: Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus

9.45am: Welcome

Location: Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus

Panel 1: 10am-12pm:

Chair: Ghassan Moazzin (The University of Hong Kong)

Location: Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus

Speakers: 

Matthew Lowenstein (Stanford University) – Hall and Household: Investment in Late Qing and Republican China

Meng Wu (University of Manchester) – Business Organization, Personnel Management, and Governance Structure: A Study of the Shanxi Piaohao (Banks)

Pengsheng Chiu (Shanghai Jiaotong University) – Merchants and Craftsmen Associations and Their Transaction Costs in Suzhou during the Qing Dynasty

Panel 2: 2pm-4pm:

Chair: Li Ji (The University of Hong Kong)

Location: Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus

Speakers: 

Elisabeth Köll (University of Notre Dame) – Financial Competition and Challenges to the Business Model of Pawnshops in Republican China

Michael Ng (The University of Hong Kong) – Capitalizing Republican China – Reflections from recent archival works

Koji Hirata (Monash University) – HSBC and Nationalist China: Rethinking British Presence during the Nanjing Decade

8 August

Panel 3: 10am-12pm

Chair: Helen Siu (Yale University/The University of Hong Kong)

Location: Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus

Speakers: 

Elizabeth Sinn (The University of Hong Kong) – A Chinese Telegraph Company, “A Person of No Great Consequence”, and the British Empire

Jin-A Kang (Hanyang University) – A Reconsideration of Asian Sugar Market and Intra-Asian Trade Theory in the First Half of the 20th Century: Focusing on Sales Analysis of Taikoo Sugar Refinery

Billy K. L. So (The University of Hong Kong) – Modern Paper-Manufacturing: To Do, or Not to Do, That Was the Question of The Shanghai Commercial Press 1920 – 1930 (co-authored with Sufumi So)

Panel 4: 2pm-4pm

Chair: John D. Wong (The University of Hong Kong)

Location: Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus

Speakers: 

Weipeng Yuan (Shanghai Jiaotong University) – Accounting System and Cost Management in Modern Chinese Enterprises: A Case Study of Hanyeping Company 汉冶萍公司（1890-1919）

Naomi He (Bristol University) – Life Insurance in Modern China: Nationalism, Salesmanship, and Social Welfare in China’s Globalization (1890s-1949)

Brett Sheehan (University of Southern California) – A Century of Midnight: Business in Chinese Popular Culture since 1930

Panel 5: 4.30pm-6pm  

Chair: Ghassan Moazzin (The University of Hong Kong)

Location: Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus

Speakers: 

Xu Junsong (Anhui Normal University) – To re-explore the “One Transaction, Recorded Twice” in the Traditional Commercial Account Books——Based on Zichenggong Account Books

Wang Guojin (Shanghai Jiaotong University) – The Basic Theory of Chinese Traditional Double-Entry Bookkeeping

Ding Meiqi (The University of Hong Kong) – An Introduction to the Eu Yan Sang Collection at the Hong Kong University Library

9 August

Work at the Chinese Merchants Collection: 9am – 12pm

Location: Hong Kong University Library 2/F Entrance

3pm-4.30pm: Closing Discussion (The Chinese Merchants Collection and Possible Collaboration and Publications)

Chairs: John D. Wong (The University of Hong Kong) & Ghassan Moazzin (The University of Hong Kong)
Location: Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus