Sufumi So (Ph.D. University of Toronto) is currently Honorary Associate Professor at the HKIHSS. Her current research interests lie at the intersection of narrative construction and historical events. Since 2012, she has been focusing on scholarly research in law and business as a co-investigator and co-author, conducting historical-comparative studies of cases in Japan, China, and the West in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Before embarking on this new chapter in her career, she was active in language research and teaching in Asia and North America. She was honoured with two teaching awards, one from American Association of Teachers of Japanese (2010) and one from George Mason University (2011).

Selected publications:

“Song China: The First Modern Economy?” In The Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Asian History, edited by David Ludden (as editor in chief), online publication. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. With Billy K.L. So.

https://oxfordre.com/asianhistory/display/10.1093/acrefore/9780190277727.001.0001/acrefore-9780190277727-e-615

“Law and Market Economy.“ In The Cambridge Economic History of China: Volume 1, To 1800, edited by Debin Ma and Richard von Glahn, 419-447. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. With Billy K.L. So.

https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/abs/cambridge-economic-history-of-china/law-and-the-market-economy/C774C4C75928F3F86547D447F8152F26

“Entrepreneurship in the Textbook Business in Modern East Asia: Kinkōdō of Meiji Japan and the Commercial Press of Early Twentieth-century China.” Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 80, no. 3 (2017): 547-569. With Billy K.L. So.

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/bulletin-of-the-school-of-oriental-and-african-studies/article/abs/entrepreneurship-in-the-textbook-business-in-modern-east-asia-kinkodo-of-meiji-japan-and-the-commercial-press-of-early-twentiethcentury-china1/D392521F01A67C347D7379380BF25E7F

“Population Growth and Maritime Prosperity: The Case of Ch’üan-chou in a Comparative Perspective, 946-1368.” Journal of Economic and Social History of the Orient 45, no. 1 (2002): 96-127. With Billy K.L. So.

https://www.jstor.org/stable/3632708

Contact
Room 202, May Hall, The University of Hong Kong
Email: sufumiso@hku.hk