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Chinese Business History
Innovating Chinese Business History
Date/Time: October 18 – 19, 2023, 10:00 – 6:00 pm (HK Time)
Language: English
Venue: Lecture Hall, G/F, May Hall, The University of Hong Kong or via Zoom
Enquiry: (Email) ihss@hku.hk
Chinese Business History
Innovating Chinese Business History
Date/Time: October 18 – 19, 2023, 10:00 – 6:00 pm (HK Time)
Language: English
Venue: Lecture Hall, G/F, May Hall, The University of Hong Kong or via Zoom
Enquiry: (Email) ihss@hku.hk
Title:
Innovating Chinese Business History
Date/Time:
October 18 – 19, 2023, 10:00 – 6:00 pm (HK Time)
Venue:
Lecture Hall, G/F, May Hall, The University of Hong Kong (Map), or Via Zoom
Language:
English
Enquiry:
Title:
Innovating Chinese Business History
Date/Time:
October 18 – 19, 2023, 10:00 – 6:00 pm (HK Time)
Venue:
Lecture Hall, G/F, May Hall, The University of Hong Kong (Map), or Via Zoom
Language:
English
Enquiry:
Visit to the Hong Kong University Library: 11am-12pm
Location: Hong Kong University Library 2/F Entrance
Introduction to the Hong Kong Chinese Merchants Collection (in-person attendees only)
(Catalogue:https://archivesspace.lib.hku.hk/repositories/2/resources/17 ;
Digitised Items: https://digitalrepository.lib.hku.hk/hkcmc)
Panel 1: 2pm-4pm:
Chair: Ghassan Moazzin (The University of Hong Kong)
Location: May Hall
Speakers:
Thomas Larkin (University of Bristol/Lingnan University) – Augustine Heard & Co: The Anatomy of a Bankruptcy in Nineteenth-Century China
Nathanael Lai (University of Cambridge) – In Support of the Zhongzhen: Loans, Textbooks, and the Cold War in 1950s Southeast Asia and Hong Kong
Jackie Wang (University of Chinese Academy of Sciences) – Engendered Entrepreneur: Women and the Politics of Business in Modern China
Location: May Hall
Panel 2: 10am-12pm
Chair: Li Ji (The University of Hong Kong)
Speakers:
Matthew Lowenstein (Stanford University) – “Popular Sources” (民间资料): opportunities, challenges, and methodologies
Bill Kelson (University of Georgia) – A Proto-Developmental State? Revisiting the Mines of the Late-Qing Self-Strengthening Movement
Adam Frost (Copenhagen Business School) – Selective Deinstitutionalization: The Dialectics of Institutional Transformation in Maoist China
Lunch: 12pm-2pm (all registered participants)
Panel 3: 2pm-3pm
Chair: Li Yiwen (City University of Hong Kong)
Speakers:
Puk Wing Kin (Chinese University of Hong Kong) – Licking blood at the blade?: Dispute over lead and zinc mining contracts between the Hunan Mining Bureau and the Carlowitz & Co. (1914-1920)
Billy So (The University of Hong Kong) and Sufumi So (The University of Hong Kong) – The Corporate Governance of the Shanghai Commercial Press in Historical and Comparative Perspective
Roundtable: New Directions in Chinese Business History : 3pm-4pm
Moderator: John Wong (The University of Hong Kong)
Tea Break: 4pm-4:30pm
Keynote Lecture: 4.30pm-6pm
Speaker:
Elisabeth Köll (University of Notre Dame) – A History of Pawnbroking in China across the 20th Century: Examples of Opportunities for and Challenges in Business History Research
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