Things are about to get started at #WEHC2025 in Lund

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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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

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...

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...

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

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Looking forward to this:

*Climate Change and Business: Historical Perspectives*, edited by Teresa da Silva Lopes, Paul Duguid and Robert Fredona

www.routledge.com/Climate-Chan...

Many congratulations to @khirata.bsky.social!

And we are lucky to have him speak on his book right away at the Chinese Business History Webinar

www.hkihss.hku.hk/en/events/ch...

This looks very interesting:

Paloma Fernández Pérez, ed. Global Family Capitalism: A Business History Perspective

Has a chapter on China by Carles Brasó Broggi and Yuan Jia-Zheng that looks very promising

www.routledge.com/Global-Famil...

Important new article on Chinese piaohao banks by Meng Wu in Business History, part of our forthcoming special issue

Meng Wu, "Governance structure, organizational form, and business performance: A study of the Shanxi piaohao (banks), 1820s–1930s"

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

We are happy to announce the line-up for the Chinese Business History Webinar at HKU for the spring semester 2024

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