War and Demand for Technology: How Unification Disincentivized Innovations in Historical China.- War and Demand for Technology: Archaeological Evidence from Early China.- Quantitative History of Regicide in China.- War Breeds Warriors: Long-term Impact of Historical Conflicts on Warrior Culture Formation.- Origin and Deployment of Qing Military Officers by Province, 1786-1908 CE.- The Impact of Crises on the Careers of County Magistrates in Qing China, 1830-1912 CE.- How to Finance Wars: The Rise of the Securities in Northern Song China during the 1040s Crises.- Fiscal Revenue in Ming and Qing China (1368-1911 CE): a Quantification.- Why Did Qing China Fail to Establish Fiscal Federalism between the Central and Local Governments.-The Rise and Fall of Traditional Banks in Historical China: A Political Explanation.- Protestantism and Agricultural Development: Evidence from China, 1920s-30s.- Name Index.- Subject Index.
Zhiwu Chen is Chair and Cheng Yu-Tung Professor in Finance at The University of Hong Kong (HKU). He currently serves as director of both Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences (HKIHSS) and Centre for Quantitative History (CQH). His research covers finance theory, the sociology of finance, economic history, quantitative history, emerging markets, as well as China's economy and capital markets. He was a former Professor of Finance at Yale University (1999-2017) and a Special-Term Visiting Professor at Peking University and Tsinghua University. In 2013, he started the annual Summer School for Quantitative History cum International Sympo-sium on Quantitative History at Tsinghua University and continues to organize them at Peking University, with the goal of promoting quantitative research on the history of China and beyond.
Cameron Campbell is Chair Professor in the Division of Social Science at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST). He is also a Distinguished Professor in the School of History and Culture at Central China Normal University. His research focuses on demography, stratification and inequality in historical China and in comparative perspective. For his research, he and his collaborators in the Lee-Campbell Group construct, analyze, and publicly release datasets constructed from archival and other sources. He was a Fellow of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford 2022-23, and a Guggenheim Fellow in 2004-2005. He was a Changjiang Scholar at Central China Normal University from 2017 to 2020.
Debin Ma is a Professor of Economics at Fudan University, Shanghai China and a Quondam Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford University. His main expertise is on the long-term economic growth of East Asia, especially China. His research interests include global history; the interna-tional comparison of living standards; institutions, legal traditions, and ideology; human capital and productivity; and the economic history of the silk industry. He has published widely on Asian and comparative economic history and is the co-editor of the
Cambridge Economic History of China.
