International Society for Quantitative History

QH Webinar Series

Going Native: Foreign Firms’ Responses to Domestic Boycotts

Thursday, April 25, 2024
16:00 (Hong Kong / Beijing / Singapore)
04:00 (New York) | 01:00 (Los Angeles) | 09:00 (London) | 17:00 (Tokyo) | 18:00 (Sydney)

Zoom Webinar

English

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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Others

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

Friday, April 26, 2024
16:30 (Hong Kong / Beijing / Singapore)
04:30 (New York) | 01:30 (Los Angeles) | 09:30 (London) | 17:30 (Tokyo) | 18:30 (Sydney)

May Hall, HKU Main Campus (and Zoom)

Mandarin Chinese

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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QH Webinar Series

War and the Origins of Chinese Civilization

16:00 | Thursday, April 11, 2024

Zoom Webinar

English

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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QH Webinar Series

The Empire Project: Trade Policy in Interwar Canada

16:00 | Thursday, March 21, 2024

Zoom Webinar

English

HKU Business School garners record high UGC funding for research on the “Quantitative History of China”

HKU Business School garners record high UGC funding for research on the “Quantitative History of China”

HK$67.32 million (over US$8.5 million) of University Grant Committee investment into four research clusters on the Quantitative History of China
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QH Webinar Series

The State Civilian Granary System and Price Stability, 1741-1856

10:00 | Thursday, February 29, 2024

Zoom Webinar

English

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