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Quantitative History Lecture - Pre-modern Growth, Industrialization and Biological Living Standards of Japan and Korea, 1840 - 2023
HK Institute for Humanities & Soc. Sci.
Uploaded on 2023-05-12 16:29:54
In this Quantitative History Lecture, Duol Kim of Myongji University will discuss his investigation of this problem, using data on the height of Koryo Deceased (=Hangryu Deceased, 行旅死亡者). Date/Time: May 18, 2023, 12:00 nn (HK time) Venue: Lecture Hall, G/F, May Hall, The University of Hong...
Quantitative History Lecture - Ideology & Economic Change: The Contrasting Paths to the Modern Economy in Late 19th Century China and Japan
HK Institute for Humanities & Soc. Sci.
Uploaded on 2023-04-24 13:08:57
In this Quantitative History Lecture, Debin Ma of the University of Oxford will present his paper which revisits the old thesis of the contrasting paths of modernization between Japan and China. Date/Time: April 28, 2023, 12:00 nn (HK time) Venue: Lecture Hall, G/F, May Hall, The University of Hong ...
Quantitative History Webinar - Ideas Mobilize People: The Diffusion of Communist Ideology in China by Ying Bai (CUHK)
HK Institute for Humanities & Soc. Sci.
Uploaded on 2023-04-24 12:40:53
Can ideas mobilize people into collective action? Ying Bai of the Chinese University of Hong Kong and his co-authors investigate this question by analyzing how exposure to Communist ideology shaped an individual's decision to join the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) during its formative stage. Join us...
Quantitative History Webinar on The Uses (and Limitations) of Quantitative Prosopography for Tang and Song History
HK Institute for Humanities & Soc. Sci.
Uploaded on 2023-04-17 00:26:48
In this Quantitative History Webinar, Nicolas Tackett of UC Berkeley will describe important prosopographic databases available to Tang and Song historians, suggesting some of their uses and limitations. Nicolas Tackett will pay particular attention to what these databases reveal about the very diff...
NEW YORK TIMES OPINION GUEST ESSAY by Professor Zhiwu Chen | How China Keeps Putting Off Its 'Lehman Moment'
HK Institute for Humanities & Soc. Sci.
Uploaded on 2023-03-27 21:53:16
Similar to the SVB crisis, a little more than a year ago, China was also said to face its 'Lehman moment' with the collapse of Evergrande Group. In the latest article featured in the New York Times, Professor Zhiwu Chen pointed out that it was a fundamental mistake of applying pure market lo...
Quantitative History Webinar on An Evolutionary Approach to the History of Useful Knowledge by Professor Joel Mokyr (Northwestern)
HK Institute for Humanities & Soc. Sci.
Uploaded on 2023-03-27 21:03:28
How should we think about long-term economic progress? In this Quantitative History Webinar, Joel Mokyr of Northwestern University will present his argument that models inspired by Charles Darwin can help us understand the selection process that committed the most important agents in Europe to a cul...
Quantitative History Webinar
HK Institute for Humanities & Soc. Sci.
Uploaded on 2023-03-15 17:48:01
Join this Quantitative History Webinar and explore Joerg Baten's latest use of bioarchaeological sources to study very long-run economic history. This is the first study that explores the welfare effects of the rise of early states in the pre-Classical Middle East. Indeed, this region and period saw...
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