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We are delighted to announce that the Twelfth Annual Symposium on Quantitative History will be held at Central China Normal University in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China, from July 11 to 12, 2026. The symposium is jointly organised by the Centre for Quantitative History of HKU, the School of History and Culture & Institute of Modern History at Central China Normal University, and the Institute of Qing History, at Renmin University of China, in collaboration with the International Society for Quantitative History and the HK Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences.
The two-day Symposium consists of plenary sessions by invited speakers, parallel sessions of accepted papers either in English or Chinese. Financial support is available to presenting authors who are in need to cover their travel and accommodation expenses.
We now invite submissions of research papers on all relevant historical topics using quantitative approaches including but not limited to economic and social history, political history, cultural history, business and financial history and archival history. Submitted papers can be either in English or Chinese. Submissions must be unpublished and original. Discussants will be assigned for each accepted submission.
All submissions should be sent via Email to history_thu@163.com no later than April 20, 2026. Paper selection results will be announced in mid. June 2026.
Contact person: Ms. Peng
(The names are arranged in the alphabetical order)
The first and second annual International Symposium on Quantitative History were held at Tsinghua University in 2013 and 2014, respectively; the third and fourth at Peking University in 2015 and 2016; the fifth at Henan University in 2017; and the sixth and seventh at Yantai Longfor Learning Center in 2018 and 2019. The eighth, tenth, and eleventh symposia were held at Shanghai Jiao Tong University between 2021 and 2024, while the ninth was held at Yantai Longfor Learning Center in 2025.
Joerg Baten (University of Tübingen)
Ying Bai (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Weimin Bao (Renmin University of China)
Sascha Becker (Monash University)
Peter Bol (Harvard University)
Stephen Broadberry (University of Oxford)
Cameron Campbell (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
Shuji Cao (Shanghai Jiao Tong University)
Eric Chaney (Harvard University)
Feng Chen (Wuhan University)
Yanliang Chen (National Dong Hwa University)
Zhiqiang Chen (Nankai University)
Zhiwu Chen (The University of Hong Kong)
Gregory Clark (University of California, Davis)
Neil Cummins (London School of Economics and Political Science)
Guoxi Dai (Shandong University)
Xiaonan Deng (Peking University)
Xiuqi Fang (Beijing Normal University)
William N. Goetzmann (Yale University)
Takeshi Hamashita (Sun Yat-sen University)
Jianye Han (Renmin University of China)
Mark Harrison (University of Warwick)
Ping He (Renmin University of China)
Philip Hoffman (California Institute of Technology)
Kris E Inwood (University of Guelph)
James Kung (The University of Hong Kong)
Timur Kuran (Duke University)
Jiancheng Lai (National Tsing Hua University)
Angela Ki Che Leung (The University of Hong Kong）
Bozhong Li (Peking University)
Zhen Li (National University of Singapore)
Xinwei Li (University of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences)
Guanglin Liu (Lingnan University)
Denggao Long (Tsinghua University)
Chicheng Ma (The University of Hong Kong)
Debin Ma (Fudan University)
Min Ma (Central China Normal University)
Haijian Mao (University of Macau)
Christopher M Meissner (The University of California, Davis)
Kris Mitchener (Santa Clara University)
Joel Mokyr (Northwestern University)
Sevket Pamuk (Bogaziçi (Bosphorus) University,Turkey)
Kaixiang Peng (Wuhan University)
Jean-Laurent Rosenthal (California Institute of Technology)
Jared Rubin (Chapman University)
Carol Shiue (University of Colorado)
Tuan Hwee Sng (National University of Singapore)
Joachim Voth (University of Zurich)
Patrick Wallis (The London School of Economics and Political Science)
Hilde De Weerdt (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven)
Di Wang (University of Macau)
Fen Wang (Shandong University)
Yuhua Wang (Harvard University)
Yue Wu (Osaka University of Economics and Law)
Mingfang Xia (Renmin University of China)
Yuda Yang (Fudan University)
Weipeng Yuan (Shanghai Jiao Tong University)
Noam Yuchtman (University of California, Berkeley)
Jan Luiten van Zanden (Utrecht University)
Guogang Zhang (Tsinghua University)
Dingxin Zhao (The University of Chicago and Zhejiang University)
Zhenman Zheng (Xiamen University)
