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Book Talk
Foreign Banks and Global Finance in Modern China: Banking on the Chinese Frontier, 1870 – 1919 by Dr. Ghassan Moazzin
Hong Kong Takes Flight: Commercial Aviation and the Making of a Global Hub, 1930s – 1998 by Dr. John D. Wong
Dr. Ghassan Moazzin and Dr. John D. Wong
(University of Hull)
Date/Time: November 22, 2022, 4:00pm (HK time)
Language: English
Venue: Lecture Hall, May Hall, HKU
Enquiry: (Email) ihss@hku.hk
Book Talk
Foreign Banks and Global Finance in Modern China: Banking on the Chinese Frontier, 1870 – 1919 by Dr. Ghassan Moazzin
Hong Kong Takes Flight: Commercial Aviation and the Making of a Global Hub, 1930s – 1998 by Dr. John D. Wong
Dr. Ghassan Moazzin and Dr. John D. Wong
(University of Hull)
Date/Time: November 22, 2022, 4:00pm (HK time)
Language: English
Venue: Lecture Hall, May Hall, HKU
Enquiry: (Email) ihss@hku.hk
Title:
Foreign Banks and Global Finance in Modern China: Banking on the Chinese Frontier, 1870 – 1919 by Dr. Ghassan Moazzin
Hong Kong Takes Flight: Commercial Aviation and the Making of a Global Hub, 1930s – 1998 by Dr. John D. Wong
Moderator:
Professor Elizabeth Sinn (HKIHSS, HKU)
Commentator:
Professor John Carroll (History, HKU)
Date/Time:
November 22, 2022, 4:00 pm HKT
Venue:
Lecture Hall, G/F, May Hall, The University of Hong Kong (Map)
Language:
English
Enquiry:
Title:
Hong Kong Takes Flight: Commercial Aviation and the Making of a Global Hub, 1930s – 1998 by Dr. John D. Wong
Moderator:
Professor Elizabeth Sinn (HKIHSS, HKU)
Commentator:
Professor John Carroll (History, HKU)
Date/Time:
November 22, 2022, 4:00 pm (HK time)
Venue:
Language:
English
Enquiry:
Foreign Banks and Global Finance in Modern China: Banking on the Chinese Frontier, 1870 – 1919
In this wide-ranging study, Ghassan Moazzin sheds critical new light on the history of foreign banks in late nineteenth and early twentieth century China, a time that saw a substantial influx of foreign financial institutions into China and a rapid increase of both China’s foreign trade and its interactions with international capital markets. Drawing on a broad range of German, English, Japanese and Chinese primary sources, including business records, government documents and personal papers, Moazzin reconstructs how during this period foreign banks facilitated China’s financial integration into the first global economy and provided the financial infrastructure required for modern economic globalization in China. Foreign Banks and Global Finance in Modern China shows the key role international finance and foreign banks and capital markets played at important turning points in modern Chinese history.
Foreign Banks and Global Finance in Modern China: Banking on the Chinese Frontier, 1870 – 1919
In this wide-ranging study, Ghassan Moazzin sheds critical new light on the history of foreign banks in late nineteenth and early twentieth century China, a time that saw a substantial influx of foreign financial institutions into China and a rapid increase of both China’s foreign trade and its interactions with international capital markets. Drawing on a broad range of German, English, Japanese and Chinese primary sources, including business records, government documents and personal papers, Moazzin reconstructs how during this period foreign banks facilitated China’s financial integration into the first global economy and provided the financial infrastructure required for modern economic globalization in China. Foreign Banks and Global Finance in Modern China shows the key role international finance and foreign banks and capital markets played at important turning points in modern Chinese history.
Hong Kong Takes Flight: Commercial Aviation and the Making of a Global Hub, 1930s – 1998
Commercial aviation took shape in Hong Kong as the city developed into a powerful economy. Rather than accepting air travel as an inevitability in the era of global mobility, John Wong argues that Hong Kong’s development into a regional and global airline hub was not preordained. By underscoring the shifting process through which this hub emerged, _Hong Kong Takes Flight_ aims to describe globalization and global networks in the making. Viewing the globalization of the city through the prism of its airline industry, Wong examines how policymakers and businesses asserted themselves against international partners and competitors in a bid to accrue socioeconomic benefits, negotiated their interests in Hong Kong’s economic success, and articulated their expressions of modernity.
Hong Kong Takes Flight: Commercial Aviation and the Making of a Global Hub, 1930s – 1998
Commercial aviation took shape in Hong Kong as the city developed into a powerful economy. Rather than accepting air travel as an inevitability in the era of global mobility, John Wong argues that Hong Kong’s development into a regional and global airline hub was not preordained. By underscoring the shifting process through which this hub emerged, _Hong Kong Takes Flight_ aims to describe globalization and global networks in the making. Viewing the globalization of the city through the prism of its airline industry, Wong examines how policymakers and businesses asserted themselves against international partners and competitors in a bid to accrue socioeconomic benefits, negotiated their interests in Hong Kong’s economic success, and articulated their expressions of modernity.
Ghassan Moazzin is Assistant Professor at the Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences and the Department of History (School of Humanities), The University of Hong Kong.
John D. Wong is Associate Professor at the Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences and the School of Modern Languages and Cultures, The University of Hong Kong.
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