LSE Chinese Economic and Social History Workshop I
12 and 13 March 2023 (GMT) Online
Hosted by the Department of Economic History
Organizers: Nora Yitong Qiu, Melanie Meng Xue
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Programme
(You can download the programme as a PDF here: Workshop Programme)
Sunday 12 March - Keynote Speech
| 13:00-14:00 | A Cultural Theory of Economic Divergence and ReconvergenceTaisu Zhang, Yale University |
Panel 1. Troubled Qing Empire: Manchus, Money, and Sold People 14:00-16:00
| 14:00-14:30 | Seizing the Pawn: A Social Network Analysis of Confiscation Practices in Late Imperial Qing China (1644-1912)Nora Yitong Qiu, LSE |
| 14:30-15:00 | Slaves or Adopted Sons? Imperial Artisans and Status Disputes Among Bondservant Households in Early Qing Manchuria.Chenxi Luo, Washington University, St.Louis |
| 15:00-15:30 | The Monetary Shadow of High Qing: Copper Cash Counterfeiting during the Qianlong Reign (1736-1795)Xiaoyu Gao, University of Chicago |
| 15:30-16:00 | State Regulation and the Creation of Qing-Kazakh Trading CentersChao Lang, Harvard University |
Panel 2. Modern China: Reform and Rebellions 16:30-18:30
| 16:30-17:00 | Coeducation Reform and Evolution of Gender Norms: Evidence from University Coeducation in 1920s ChinaYuchen Lin, Warwick University |
| 17:00-17:30 | Mothers at the crossroad: Gender-generational Inequality during Republican China’s Legal ReformsShumeng Han, UC San Diego |
| 17:30-18:00 | The Sacred Red and Communist Red: Vernacular Religion and Rebellion in the Lawless Frontier of Southwest ChinaShuhui Zhou, University of Washington, Seattle |
| 18:00-18:30 | How Bottom-up Data Manipulation Mitigates Authoritarian Risks: Evidence from China’s Public Health Campaign Jingyang Rui, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor |
Monday 13 March - Keynote Speech
| 12:00-13:00 | Taxation and Revolution in Late Qing SichuanKeynote Speaker: Elizabeth Kaske |
| 13:00-14:00 | How to Navigate a Career in Chinese Economic History - the Hidden Curriculum |
Panel 3. Economic and Political Changes: Causation and Correlation 14:00-16:00
| 14:00-14:30 | Awakening Latent Human Capital: Entrepreneurship and the Opening-up of ChinaLi Duan, Hongkong University |
| 14:30-15:00 | Marx Meets Weber: The Dissolution of Communes and the Rise of Religion in ChinaPinghan Liang, Sun Yat-Sen University |
| 15:00-15:30 | Adjustments And Vicissitudes: The Indirect Banknote Issuance In Republican China, 1915-19491Meng Wu, University of Manchester |
| 15:30-16:00 | Newspaper, Post Office, and Protest: How Do Political Information Diffusion and Social Interactions Affect Collective Action in Late Imperial China?Boxiao Zhang, Renmin University |
Panel 4. Agriculture, Occupation, and Knowledge 16:30-18:30
| 16:30-17:00 | Regional Variations in Chinese Agriculture and Urbanisation from the Twelfth to the Fourteenth CenturyZhao Dong, Oxford University |
| 17:00-17:30 | Resisted Motion: (Im)mobility of Miao Arrow Poison in Eighteenth-century ChinaChang Xu, Washington University, St. Louis |
| 17:30-18:00 | By-Employment in the Long-Twentieth-Century Yangtze Valley: Structural Change, Land System, and SpecialisationYing Dai, Cambridge University |
| 18:00-18:30 | The Entangled Production and Livelihood: An Ethnography of Farming Life in Maoist China, 1949-1980Shumeng Han, University of California, San Diego |