International Society for Quantitative History
Area of Excellence-Quantitative History Conference 2023: Exploring China and Hong Kong’s Journey through Data and Research

Area of Excellence-Quantitative History Conference 2023: Exploring China and Hong Kong’s Journey through Data and Research

The Centre for Quantitative History of HKU Business School hosted a two-day conference on October 25-26, 2023, showcasing the latest quantitative history (QH) research carried out under the Areas of Excellence (AoE) Scheme funded by the Research Grants Council. The conference featured 16 ongoing research projects from the project team members and their collaborators. These projects applied the quantitative history approach, utilizing large datasets constructed from historical archives and archaeological records to reconstruct trends, and patterns, and assess causal relationships.
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QH Webinar Series

Celebrating legacy: The intergenerational transmission of reproduction and human capital in Ming–Qing Chinese families

21:00 | Thursday, May 30, 2024

Zoom Webinar

English

Quantitative History Takes the Lead in Adam Smith's Tercentenary Celebration in Hong Kong

Quantitative History Takes the Lead in Adam Smith's Tercentenary Celebration in Hong Kong

For those who missed the Smith Around the World Lecture Series featuring Professor Zhiwu Chen, co-director of the International Society for Quantitative History, there is still an opportunity to catch up on Professor Chen's keynote speech and the discussion that followed.
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Seminars

Financial Shocks and Portfolio Preferences: Evidence from the Failure of the Freedmen’s Savings Bank

16:30 | Monday, April 29, 2024

KK1119, KKL Building, HKU Campus

English

Gary Richardson

Gary Richardson

Professor of Economics, University of California, Irvine

Centre for Quantitative History
Arthur H. Cole Prize for the best article in The Journal of Economic History goes to our co-director Chicheng Ma

Arthur H. Cole Prize for the best article in The Journal of Economic History goes to our co-director Chicheng Ma

Co-director Chicheng Ma has recently won the prestigious Arthur H. Cole Prize for his paper "Knowledge Diffusion and Intellectual Change: When Chinese Literati Met European Jesuits" published in The Journal of Economic History (JEH).
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Others

Quantitative History Book Launch Series | The Population History of China (1368–1953) by Shuji Cao

16:30 | Friday, April 26, 2024

May Hall, HKU Main Campus (and Zoom)

Mandarin Chinese

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