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Sijie Hu 胡思捷
Ph.D., London School of Economics and Political Science
Assistant Professor
Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences
Faculty of Social Sciences
The University of Hong Kong
Sijie Hu is an Assistant Professor at the Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences and the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Hong Kong. She received her Ph.D. (2021) in Economic History from the London School of Economics and Political Science, and her B.A. (2014) and M.A. (2016) from Renmin University of China. Before joining HKU, she was an Assistant Professor of Economic History at the School of Economics, Renmin University of China.
Her research interests centre on Chinese economic history, historical demography, and population economics, with particular emphasis on demographic change, social mobility, and human capital formation in Ming–Qing China. She is currently engaged in projects that investigate micro-demographic dynamics in traditional Chinese society using large-scale genealogical data.
CONTACT
Address: Room 213, May Hall, The University of Hong Kong
Email: sijiehu@hku.hk
Tel: (852) 3917-3117
Hu, Sijie. 2025. “Evolutionary Advantage of Moderate Fertility During Ming–Qing China: A Unified Growth Perspective.” Journal of Economic Growth. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10887-025-09255-5.
Hu, Sijie. 2023. “Survival of the Literati: Social Status and Reproduction in Ming–Qing China.” Journal of Population Economics, 36(4): 2025–2070.
Cai, Yang, Sijie Hu, and Shengmin Sun. 2023. “Confucianism and War Mobilization: Evidence from Chinese Revolutions.” Cliometrica, 18(2): 1–37.
Hu, Sijie. 2023. “Descendants over 300 Years: Marital Fertility in Five Lineages in Qing China.” Asia-Pacific Economic History Review, 63(2): 200–224.
Hu, Sijie, and Ziang Liu. 2025. “与人口赛跑: 重视前现代中国与英国人口与生产力的长期趋势” (Racing with Population: Revisiting the Long-run Population and Productivity in Early Modern China and England). Qing History Journal (清史研究), 1: 35–46.
Hu, Sijie, and Jue Wang. 2024. “明清时期的性别歧视: 以江浙地区六个家族为例” (Gender Discrimination during the Ming and Qing Dynasties: A Case Study of Six Lineages in Jiangsu and Zhejiang Provinces). Economic Theory and Business Management (经济理论与经济管理), 6: 125–140.
