21 August

10.45am-11.15am: Registration

Location: Faculty Board Room (4.36), Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus

11.15am: Welcome

Location: Faculty Board Room (4.36), Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus

Panel 1: 11.30am-1pm:

Chair: Ghassan Moazzin (The University of Hong Kong)

Location: Faculty Board Room (4.36), Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus

Speakers: 

Otis Edwards (The University of Hong Kong) – Reconfiguring Trade: London Finance, Lintin Island, and the Transformation of the Opium Economy in Early Nineteenth-Century Canton

Xiaoyu Gao (University of Chicago) – Empire of Copper: British and American Global Trade, Chilean Copper, and the Transformation of Chinese Monetary System (1800-1862)

William R. Kelson (The University of Hong Kong) – The ‘Circle of Distress’: Mapping the Spread of the Late-Qing Financial Crisis of the 1880s

Panel 2: 2pm-3.30pm:

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

Location: Faculty Board Room (4.36), Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus

Speakers: 

Yuan Weipeng (Shanghai Jiaotong University) – 晚清政府采购制度与汉冶萍公司

Li Zigui (Sun Yat-sen University) – Reuters and the Evolving News Telegram Distribution System in Late Qing Shanghai

Wang Zilong (The University of Tokyo) – State Control or Managerial Autonomy? The Long-Term Evolution of the China Merchants Steam Navigation Company, 1872–2022

22 August

Panel 3: 9.30am-11am

Chair: Li Ji (The University of Hong Kong)

Location: Faculty Board Room (4.36), Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus

Speakers: 

Ghassan Moazzin (The University of Hong Kong) – Shenbao, Advertisements and Electrical Modernity in Shanghai, 1912-1937

Debin Ma (Tsinghua University) – Adjustments and Vicissitudes: The Indirect Issuance of Banknotes in Republican China, 1915–1945

Shinya Oishida (Rikkyo University) – Postal Savings Bank in Republican China: In Comparison with Commercial Banking Business

Panel 4: 11.30am – 1pm

Chair: William R. Kelson (The University of Hong Kong)

Location: Faculty Board Room (4.36), Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus

Speakers: 

Billy K. L. So (The University of Hong Kong) & Sufumi So (The University of Hong Kong) – Modern Corporation: Conceptual Excursions, and the China Exception?

Peter E. Hamilton (University of Bristol) – China’s First Management Consultants in the Nanjing Decade

Ning Jennifer Chang (Academia Sinica) – Managing Volunteer Associations in Modern China: The Case of the Shanghai Race Club, 1850-1950

2.30pm: Transportation to Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Archives

3pm-4.30pm: Visit to Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Archives (registered attendees only)

23 August

Panel 5: 9.30am – 11.30am

Chair: Debin Ma (Tsinghua University)

Location: Faculty Board Room (4.36), Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus

Speakers: 

Niu Hao (Zhongnan University of Economics and Law) – OEM Collaboration: A Study on the Production and Distribution of Indanthrene Fabric in the Republic of China

Brett Sheehan (University of Southern California) – Balancing strangers and friends: Curating shareholder composition by the Dongya Corporation, 1932–1950

Huangfu Qiushi (Fudan University) – Pirnie, Lee & Company and the Post-war Sino-U.S. Economic Cooperation on the Local Level (1946–48)

Koji Hirata (Monash University) – From Grain Exporter to Importer: Food Crisis, Trade Realignment, and China’s Turn to the Capitalist World, 1960–1965

Panel 6: 1pm – 3pm

Chair: Brett Sheehan (University of Southern California)

Location: Faculty Board Room (4.36), Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus

Speakers: 

Elizabeth Sinn (The University of Hong Kong) – Death by American protectionism? The Life and Times of a Hong Kong Chinese Company – the On Tai Marine Insurance Company (1877–1899)

Sheyla S. Zandonai (University of Macau) – Pledging, Betting, Building: The History of Modern Pawnshops in Macau

Dong Yan (Shanghai University of Finance and Economics) – From Local Currency to Foreign Exchange: Reshaping the Hong Kong Dollar in 1950s Guangdong

Kelvin Chan (University of Bristol) – Made in Hong Kong: Eu Yan Sang and Chinese Medicine in Cold War Southeast Asia

Roundtable: Future Avenues for Research: 3.30pm-4.30pm

Chair: Ghassan Moazzin (The University of Hong Kong)

Location: Faculty Board Room (4.36), Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus

Takeshi Hamashita (Toyo Bunko), John D. Wong (The University of Hong Kong), Tomoko Shiroyama (The University of Tokyo)

4.30pm-5pm: Closing Discussion (Possible Collaboration and Publications)

Chairs: John D. Wong (The University of Hong Kong) & Ghassan Moazzin (The University of Hong Kong)