Very glad that the special issue “The Global Economy and the Origins of Modern Chinese Business”, co-edited by
John D. Wong, Jin-A Kang and myself, is now officially out in Business History as Business History 67, No. 7: tandfonline.com/toc/fbsh20/6...
Things are about to get started at #WEHC2025 in Lund
And thank you to all the reviewers!
Many thanks to Pierre-Yves Donzé for all his help as Associate Editor with this special issue!
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Ren Jian. “Beyond Revolutions: Mao-Era China’s Market Entry Strategies in Latin America.” Business History, (2024), 1–15. www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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Carles Brasó Broggi. “The Rise of Hong Kong’s Textile Industry, 1945–1974: The Role of the Hong Kong Spinners Association (HKSA).” Business History, (2024), 1–19. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Peter E. Hamilton. “Management Thought and Practice in 1920s China.” Business History, (2024), 1–21. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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@khirata.bsky.social. “Mining the informal empire: Sino-Japanese relations and ironmaking in Manchuria, 1909–1931”. Business History, (2024), 1–18. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Bill Kelson. “Manias, Panics, & Land: The Property Bubbles of the Great Chinese Crash of the 1880s.” Business History, (2024), 1–26. www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1...
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This also means that the complete special issue is now available online:
Meng Wu. “Governance structure, organizational form, and business performance: A study of the Shanxi piaohao (banks), 1820s–1930s." Business History, (2024), 1–27. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Very happy to see the introduction to the special issue in @businesshistory.bsky.social I co-edited with John D. Wong and Jin-A Kang and Jin-A Kang titled "The Global Economy and the Origins of Modern Chinese Business" published
Link: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Thanks!
Photo Source: The Far Eastern Review (October 1914)
on different iterations of the project, and to @tobylincoln.bsky.social for the early encouragement. Now all that remains is writing the book:)
Photo: The Hanyang Iron and Steel Works in 1914
and is aimed at students, scholars and a wider public. I particularly hope that I will be able to bring the rich new Chinese-language scholarship on Chinese business history to a wider audience. I am grateful to John Wong, @philipthai.bsky.social and @khirata.bsky.social for comments[2/3]
Very happy to have signed a contract with @universitypress.cambridge.org for a book tentatively titled "A Business History of Modern China: c. 1800 to the Present". The book will cover the historical evolution of Chinese enterprise over the past two centuries [1/3]
For the @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social, I spoke to Prof. Xing Hang about his fascinating new book 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘗𝘰𝘳𝘵: 𝘏𝑎̀ 𝘛𝘪𝑒̂𝘯 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘔𝘰 𝘊𝘭𝘢𝘯 𝘪𝘯 𝘌𝘢𝘳𝘭𝘺 𝘔𝘰𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘯 𝘈𝘴𝘪𝘢
newbooksnetwork.com/the-port
Thanks for the wonderful talk!
"Book tour" for Remaking the Earth, Exhausting the People (due out July 2025), which will mostly involve staring at a laptop, begins with virtual lecture organized by Hong Kong University.
April 29, 2025 9:00-10:00 HKT,April 28, 2025 18:00-19:00 PDT. Registration: hku.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Very happy to receive my contributor's copy in the mail:
*Climate Change and Business: Historical Perspectives*, edited by Teresa da Silva Lopes, Paul Duguid and Robert Fredona
Coming out officially at the end of the month
www.routledge.com/Climate-Chan...
We’re pleased to announce the appointment of 32 Fellows for the 2025–26 academic year. These leading scholars will come to the Center from universities and colleges in 13 US states and the District of Columbia as well as Canada and Hong Kong. #humanities
Looking forward to this. I will be @natlhumanities.bsky.social during the spring semester 2026
nationalhumanitiescenter.org/national-hum...
A long time ago, I did research on fishing. Here's a new chapter I wrote that synthesizes work on the topic, along with whaling. (Link should be correct.)
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Front page of new Transactions article by Ghassan Moazzin, entitled: 'Incomplete Infrastructure: State-Building and the Early History of China’s Long-Distance Telephone Network, 1900–1937', and a map of telephone networks from 1936 from the article.
How was state-building assisted by the creation long-distance telephony in mid-C20th China?
'Incomplete Infrastructure: State-Building and the Early History of China’s Long-Distance Telephone Network, 1900–1937', by Ghassan Moazzin: bit.ly/3WJLC2c Now available, Open Access in 'Transactions' 1/2
Very happy that my newest article has just appeared in the Transactions of the Royal Historical Society (@royalhistsoc.bsky.social). In it, I explore the beginnings of the Chinese long-distance telephone network in the early 20th century.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Grateful for another review of *Foreign Banks and Global Finance in Modern China*, this time by Li Haoxun in Chinese Studies International: A Scholarly Review Journal
muse.jhu.edu/article/9481...
China Handbook 1950 - I found a copy of this on ebay, scanned, and posted to IA in three parts. Nearly 800 pages of reference info related to the Republic of China at a very awkward moment. archive.org/details/chin... (tweet archive 2022)
We are very happy to announce the 2025 spring program of the Chinese Business History Webinar at the Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences
If you would like to receive details and updates about these talks, you can sign up to our email list: www.hkihss.hku.hk/en/news_and_...
I got around to scanning a fat wartime Chinese ministry of information handbook I found on Ebay packed with nearly 1,000 pages of state statistics & reference material: China Handbook 1937-1943. Uploaded as 5 large PDF files to Internet Archive: archive.org/details/chin... (tweet archive 2022)
