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Asia Economic History Seminar 2024-25

Seminar organisers: Zoey Shen, Tom Learmouth, Bumjin Park

Venue

Autumn Term: CKK.2.18 (Cheng Kin Ku Building) unless otherwise stated 

Winter Term: CKK 1.17, unless otherwise stated

Time: 12-1pm, unless otherwise stated

 

Autumn Term 2024

 

Tuesday 7 October 

  • Toan Luu Duc Huynh (Queen Mary)
  • A Land of Sages: A Legacy of Former Elites and University Professors in Vietnam
  • Venue: Vera Anstey Room

26 November

  • Nina Liu (KCL)
  • Printing and Women: The Gendered Impact of Printing Technology in Imperial China

3 December

  • Kota Ogasawara (Tokyo Institute of Technology)
  • Technology, Institutions, and Regional Growth: Evidence from the Mineral Mining Industry in Industrialising Japan

Winter Term 2025

28 January

  • Ying Dai (Cambridge)
  • Working Patterns in the twentieth century Yangtze Valley: Evidence from Lineage Genealogies

11 February

  • Anne Booth (SOAS)
  • The Causes and Consequences of Globalisation in Southeast Asia from the 16th century to the Present

11 March

  • Jan Lucassen (International Institute of Social History)
  • Earning an Income in India, 1500-1900