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Speaker(s): Professor Kent Deng
Chair: Professor Janet Hunter

Recorded on 3 October 2016 at Wolfson Theatre, New Academic Building

China had the first intensive economic growth ever recorded in world history. What were the factors and dynamics behind this remarkable growth?

Kent Deng is Professor of Economic History at LSE.

Janet Hunter is Saji Professor of Economic History. Her research interests focus on the economic history of modern Japan in comparative context. She is currently working on the economic history of natural disasters, with a major project analysing the economic impact of the Great Kantō Earthquake of 1923.

The Department of Economic History (@LSEEcHist) is home to a huge breadth and depth of knowledge and expertise ranging from the medieval period to the current century and covering every major world economy.

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