Ghassan Moazzin is Assistant Professor at the Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences and the Department of History. He was educated at the University of Cambridge, where he received both his B.A. (2012) and Ph.D. (2017). Before coming to Hong Kong, he was a JSPS International Research Fellow at the Graduate School of Economics of the University of Tokyo. He has also been a visiting scholar at East China Normal University in Shanghai and the Institute of Modern History at Academia Sinica in Taipei. His doctoral dissertation won both the Coleman Prize of the Association of Business Historians and the Herman E. Krooss Prize of the Business History Conference. It was also a finalist for the Dissertation Prize (Category: The Long 19^th Century) of the World Economic History Congress 2018.

Moazzin’s research deals with the economic and business history of modern China and the global history of capitalism. His current research project uses a wide range of primary sources in Chinese, Japanese, English and German to explore the history of foreign banks, international finance and economic globalisation in late 19^th and early 20^th century China. His research has been published in Cross-Currents and Modern Asian Studies. His first monograph, tentatively titled Banking on the Chinese Frontier: Foreign Banks, Global Finance and the Making of Modern China, 1870 – 1919, is under contract with Cambridge University Press.

Contact

Address: Room 110, May Hall, The University of Hong Kong
Tel: (852) 3917-8110
Fax: (852) 2559-6143
Email: gmoazzin@hku.hk

Personal Webpage: www.ghassan-moazzin.com