Chinese Business History

Innovating Chinese Business History

2023-10-18 10:002023-10-18 18:00Asia/Hong_KongInnovating Chinese Business History

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

    2023-10-18 10:002023-10-18 18:00Asia/Hong_KongInnovating Chinese Business History

    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

      Overview

      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:

      18 October

      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

       

      19 October

      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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