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The Chinese economy in the long run

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Dates:21 October 2022
Times:All day
What is it:Conferences
Organiser:School of Social Sciences
Who is it for:University staff
Speaker:Stephen Broadberry, Richard von Glahn
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Date:

October 21, 2022

Conference title:

The Chinese Economy in the Long Run

Location:

The University of Manchester

Room: Arthur Lewis Building Boardroom 2.016 (second floor)

Note: This conference is expected to take place offline only. The program below is preliminary and subject to change.

Conference organizers:

Nuno Palma and Meng Wu, University of Manchester

Program

9.00-9.40. Opening address: Melanie Xue (LSE)

9.40-10.00. Coffee break

10.00-10.20 Time for interaction with poster presenters

10.20-10.40. Hilton L. Root (GMU), Religion and the Great Divergence of East and West: The Persistent Effects of Networks of Church and State in the History of China and Europe

10.40-11.00. Wolfgang Keller (University of Colorado), “Human Capital Strategies for Recovery from Big Shocks: The Case of the Fall of the Ming” (with Carol H. Shiue)

11.00-12.00 Keynote: Stephen Broadberry (Oxford)

12.00-13.00. Lunch

13.00-14.00 Roundtable: Was there a scientific and institutional Great Divergence prior to the Great Divergence of incomes? – with Jack Goldstone (GMU), Stephen Morgan (Nottingham), Patrick O’Brien (LSE) and Meng Wu (Manchester)

14.00-14.20. Nuno Palma (University of Manchester), The rise and fall of paper money in Yuan China, 1260-1368 (with Hanhui Guan and Meng Wu)

14.20-14.40. Kevin Zhengcheng Liu (University of Hong Kong), Commitment Failure within Bureaucracy: Why a Centralization Reform Backfired in Late Imperial China (with Yu Hao)

14.40-15.00. Alejandra Irigoin (LSE), China inside out: explaining silver flows in the UK-Asia triangular trade 1820s-1870 (with Atsushi Kobayashi)

15.00-16.00 Keynote: Richard von Glahn (UCLA)

16.00-16.20 Coffee break

16.20-16.40. Meng Wu (University of Manchester). Adjustments and Vicissitudes: The Indirect Issuance of Banknotes in Republican China, 1915-1945 (with X. Dong, D. Ma, and N. Palma)

16.40-17.00. Peter E. Hamilton (Lingnan University, Hong Kong), The Book which Increases the Human Efficiency: The Introduction of Taylorism in China

17.00-17.20. Li Yang (DIW Berlin). The Making of China and India in the 21st Century: Long Run Human Capital Accumulation from 1900 to 2020 (with Nitin Kumar Bharti)

17.20-18.00 Closing address: Debin Ma (University of Oxford)

19.00 dinner in a restaurant nearby

POSTERS

Ying Dai (University of Cambridge), By-employment in the Yangtze Valley in the long twentieth century

Zhao Dong (University of Oxford), Chinese Agricultural Development and Output Per Capita 1161-1330

Linghui Han (GMU), Physical vs. institutional public goods provision: Evidence from China

Christoph Hess (University of Cambridge), The Choice to Leave: Family Constraints on Geographical Mobility in Late Imperial China

Bin Huang (University of Zurich), Making the Pearls of the Orient: Treaty Port, Concession, and the Rise of the Modern Economy in China, 1840-1920 (with James Kai-sing Kung)

Ziang Liu (LSE), Wages, labour market, and living standards in China, 1530-1840

Xizi Luo (LSE), Parental Dictates: Marriage Sorting and Social Mobility in Imperial China, 1614-1854

Chenyang Qi (Central University of Finance and Economics, China), The fate of the Taiping Rebellion: the mechanics of building government mobilization capacity

Jinlin Wei (University of Warwick), The fiscal foundation of bureaucratic power sharing in the late Qing China (with Tianyang Xi)

Runzhuo Zhai (University of Oxford). Toward the Great Divergence: Economic Growth in Yangzi Delta, 1393-1953

Qingrou Zhao (University of Edinburg), The 1882-1883 Shanghai Financial Crisis Revisited: An Analysis From the Perspective of Self-Strengthening Enterprises

Speakers

Stephen Broadberry

Role: Keynote speaker

Organisation: Oxford University

Richard von Glahn

Role: Keynote speaker

Organisation: UCLA

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