Things are about to get started at #WEHC2025 in Lund

Very happy to see the introduction to the special issue in @businesshistory.bsky.social I co-edited with John D. Wong and Jin-A Kang and Jin-A Kang titled "The Global Economy and the Origins of Modern Chinese Business" published Link: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 1/9

Very happy to have signed a contract with @universitypress.cambridge.org for a book tentatively titled "A Business History of Modern China: c. 1800 to the Present". The book will cover the historical evolution of Chinese enterprise over the past two centuries [1/3]

For the @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social, I spoke to Prof. Xing Hang about his fascinating new book 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘗𝘰𝘳𝘵: 𝘏𝑎̀ 𝘛𝘪𝑒̂𝘯 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘔𝘰 𝘊𝘭𝘢𝘯 𝘪𝘯 𝘌𝘢𝘳𝘭𝘺 𝘔𝘰𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘯 𝘈𝘴𝘪𝘢 newbooksnetwork.com/the-port

"Book tour" for Remaking the Earth, Exhausting the People (due out July 2025), which will mostly involve staring at a laptop, begins with virtual lecture organized by Hong Kong University. April 29, 2025 9:00-10:00 HKT,April 28, 2025 18:00-19:00 PDT. Registration: hku.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Very happy to receive my contributor's copy in the mail: *Climate Change and Business: Historical Perspectives*, edited by Teresa da Silva Lopes, Paul Duguid and Robert Fredona Coming out officially at the end of the month www.routledge.com/Climate-Chan...

We’re pleased to announce the appointment of 32 Fellows for the 2025–26 academic year. These leading scholars will come to the Center from universities and colleges in 13 US states and the District of Columbia as well as Canada and Hong Kong. #humanities

Looking forward to this. I will be @natlhumanities.bsky.social during the spring semester 2026 nationalhumanitiescenter.org/national-hum...

Very happy to find @khirata.bsky.social's brilliant new book in the mail:) Thanks Koji! www.cambridge.org/hk/universit...

A long time ago, I did research on fishing. Here's a new chapter I wrote that synthesizes work on the topic, along with whaling. (Link should be correct.) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

How was state-building assisted by the creation long-distance telephony in mid-C20th China? 'Incomplete Infrastructure: State-Building and the Early History of China’s Long-Distance Telephone Network, 1900–1937', by Ghassan Moazzin: bit.ly/3WJLC2c Now available, Open Access in 'Transactions' 1/2

Very happy that my newest article has just appeared in the Transactions of the Royal Historical Society (@royalhistsoc.bsky.social). In it, I explore the beginnings of the Chinese long-distance telephone network in the early 20th century. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Grateful for another review of *Foreign Banks and Global Finance in Modern China*, this time by Li Haoxun in Chinese Studies International: A Scholarly Review Journal muse.jhu.edu/article/9481...

China Handbook 1950 - I found a copy of this on ebay, scanned, and posted to IA in three parts. Nearly 800 pages of reference info related to the Republic of China at a very awkward moment. archive.org/details/chin... (tweet archive 2022)

We are very happy to announce the 2025 spring program of the Chinese Business History Webinar at the Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences If you would like to receive details and updates about these talks, you can sign up to our email list: www.hkihss.hku.hk/en/news_and_...

I got around to scanning a fat wartime Chinese ministry of information handbook I found on Ebay packed with nearly 1,000 pages of state statistics & reference material: China Handbook 1937-1943. Uploaded as 5 large PDF files to Internet Archive: archive.org/details/chin... (tweet archive 2022)

Amazon (US) has already made my book available. Please buy it ($34.99), regardless of whether you plan to read it or not.

My new book, JAPAN AT WAR, 1914-1952, is available for pre-order. It is a political history that highlights the centrality of war to the Japanese experience between World War I and World War II. www.routledge.com/Japan-at-War... There is currently a 25% off discount at Routledge!

Looking forward to this: *Climate Change and Business: Historical Perspectives*, edited by Teresa da Silva Lopes, Paul Duguid and Robert Fredona www.routledge.com/Climate-Chan...

On the official birthday of my book (US time), I will give an online book talk at HKU. Thank you so much, HKU, for making this happen. Dec 6, 2024 | 09:00 HKT. More Info: hkihss.hku.hk/en/events/ch...

I made a list of all the economic historians on the economics job market! Help me update the list by tagging those I've missed.

Many congratulations to @khirata.bsky.social! And we are lucky to have him speak on his book right away at the Chinese Business History Webinar www.hkihss.hku.hk/en/events/ch...

My book, “Making Mao's Steelworks: Industrial Manchuria and the Transnational Origins of Chinese Socialism,” finally has a confirmed publication date—December 5, 2024. You can order it via Amazon. www.amazon.com/Making-Maos-...

This looks very interesting: Paloma Fernández Pérez, ed. Global Family Capitalism: A Business History Perspective Has a chapter on China by Carles Brasó Broggi and Yuan Jia-Zheng that looks very promising www.routledge.com/Global-Famil...

What better way to inaugurate Enterprise and Society's brand new Bluesky account than with Sharon Murphy's superb 2024 @businesshistoryc.bsky.social Presidential Address, presented here Open Access. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Is there a critical mass of people here? 🤔 Please retweet this if you think I should start posting books here!

@hagleycenter.bsky.social @businesshistoryc.bsky.social go.bsky.app/C5toySb

i overcame my anxiety about making a good list and i made *a* list of business historians which i didn't realize until i made it includes me by default 🤨 go.bsky.app/TpYTwRe

Since I have a lot of new followers, including many in Chinese studies, I'd like to take this opportunity to remind everyone about our online search platform for Qing officials recorded in the 缙绅录 database, as well as exam degree holders and their kin recorded in 同年齿录 vis.cse.ust.hk/searchjsl/ 🀄️📚

Important new article on Chinese piaohao banks by Meng Wu in Business History, part of our forthcoming special issue Meng Wu, "Governance structure, organizational form, and business performance: A study of the Shanxi piaohao (banks), 1820s–1930s" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

My next book is now Amazon official. Remaking the Earth, Exhausting the People: The Burden of Conservation in Modern China a.co/d/8GJpnx3

We are happy to announce the line-up for the Chinese Business History Webinar at HKU for the spring semester 2024 If you would like to receive the details about these talks, you can sign up to our email list: www.hkihss.hku.hk/en/news_and_...