Frontiers in Chinese Economic HistoryNovember 6- 7, 2015
Hotel Shattuck Plaza Berkeley, CA The conference will bring together researchers within the All-UC system as well as leading Chinese economic historians from around the world to discuss cutting-edge research on the economic history of China. A highlight of the conference will be a special roundtable discussion on “The Great Divergence at 15 Years,” and will feature several leading contributors to these debates. The conference will cover the travel and hotel costs of participants. This event is co-sponsored by the The Institute of East Asian Studies at UC Berkeley, the Berkeley Economic History Lab, and the Center for Chinese Studies at UC Berkeley. If you are interested in attending or for more information please email Lauren Thomas. |
Workshop Program |
Friday, November 6th
12:00 --- 1:00 p.m. Lunch 1:00 -‐ 1:15 p.m. Welcome and Introductions Session I: Public Policy and Unintended Consequences 1:15 -‐ 2:05 p.m. “Buddha’s Grace Illuminates All: Temple Destruction, School Construction, and Modernization in the 20th Century China” Shaoda Wang (UC-‐Berkeley) and Boxiao Zhang (Peking University) 2:10-‐3:00 p.m. “Historical Traumas and the Roots of Political Distrust: Political Inference from the Great Chinese Famine” Yuyu Chen (Peking University) and David Y. Yang (Stanford) 3:00-‐3:30 p.m. Coffee Break Session II: The “Little Divergence” 3:30 -‐ 4:20 p.m. “Geopolitics and Asia’s Little Divergence” Mark Koyama (George Mason), Chiaki Moriguchi (Hitotsubashi), and Tuan-‐Hwee Sng (National University of Singapore) 4:20-‐ 5:00 p.m. Coffee Break Session III. Roundtable 5:00 -‐ 6:45 p.m. “Reflections on the Great Divergence” Debin Ma (LSE), Ian Morris (Stanford) & Jean-‐Laurent Rosenthal (Caltech) 7:00 – 7:30 p.m. Reception Location: Revival, 2102 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley 7:30 -‐ 9:30 p.m. Dinner Location: Revival, 2102 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley Saturday, November 7th 8:00 -‐ 8:45 a.m. Continental Breakfast Session IV. Law & Economics in Imperial China 8:45 -‐ 9:35 a.m. “A Quantitative Reassessment of Qing Dynasty China” Zhiwu Chen (Yale), Kaixiang Peng (Henan University), Lijun Zhu (Washington University, St. Louis) Session V. Capital Markets in China 9:40 -‐ 10:30 a.m. “Counterfeiter Paradox: Who Defended Monetary Stability in the Ancient World?” Sheng Qian (Peking University), Lemin Wu (Peking University) 10:30 – 10:50 a.m. Coffee Break 10:50 -‐ 11:40 a.m. “Silver Points, Silver Flows, and the Measure of Chinese Financial Integration” David Jacks (Simon Fraser), Se Yan (Peking University), and Liuyan Zhao (Peking University) 11:45 – 12:35 a.m. “International Liquidity Shocks, the Real Economy, and Social Unrest: China, 1931-‐1935” Fabio Braggion (Tilburg), Alberto Manconi (Tilburg), and Haikun Zhu (Tilburg) 12:35 – 1:20 Lunch Session VI. Migration and Human Geography 1:20 – 2:10 p.m. “Friends from Afar: Migration, Cultural Proximity and Primary Schooling in Lower Yangzi, 1850-‐1949” Yu Hao (Peking University) and Meng Xue (UCLA) 2:15 – 3:05 p.m. “The Return on Moving to the Right Place at the Right Time: The Economic Consequence of the Manchuria Plague of 1910-‐11 on Migrants” Dan Li (Fudan) and Nan Li (SHUFE) 3:05 -‐ 3:25 p.m. Coffee Break Session VII. Trade and Public Finance 3:25 -‐ 4:15 p.m. “Tax Reform, Protests, and the Incidence of Taxes in Eighteenth-Century China” Cong Liu (University of Arizona) 4:20 – 5:10 “New Technology and Domestic Trade: China during the Treaty Port Era” Wolfgang Keller (University of Colorado Boulder), Carol H. Shiue (University of Colorado Boulder), Javier Andres Santiago (University of Colorado Boulder) 5:30 p.m. Post-Conference Festivities |