Finalized Program| Reimbursement Instructions
Session 1: Long Term Growth
Regional Variation of GDP Per Head Within China, 1080-1859: Implications for the Great Divergence Debate
Stephen Broadberry, Nuffield College, Oxford
Discussant: Jack Goldstone, GMU
Taiping-era War Finance in Qing China: New Perspectives and Long-term Consequences
Evelyn S. Rawski and Thomas G. Rawski, University of Pittsburgh
Discussant: Taisu Zhang, Yale University
Keynote Talk: How Might Chinese Economic History Look in (and into) the Future?
R. Bin Wong, UCLA
Special Session: Distant Shores: Colonial Encounters on China’s Maritime Frontier
Melissa Macauley, Northwestern University
Discussant: Evelyn S. Rawski, University of Pittsburgh
Session 2: Public Finance and State Capacity
Determinants of State Capacity: Wars and Public Goods
Clair Z. Yang, University of Washington
Discussants: Ruixue Jia, UCSD
Revisiting Skinner: Counting Counties in Song China
Tuan-Hwee Sng, National University of Singapore
Discussant: Yuhua Wang, Harvard University
Session 3: Regional and Spatial Development
Trafficking, Violence, and Revolution: The Evidence from Salt Charter System in Qing China
Meng Miao, Renmin University, and Yiling Zhao, Peking University
Discussant: Loren Brandt, University of Toronto
The Spatial Structure of Economic Development and Regional Occupational Structure in Late Imperial China, 1734-1898
Cheng Yang, Renmin University
Discussant: Xiaoxue Zhao, Wesleyan University
Session 4: Strategies and Commitments
Human Capital Strategies for Big Shocks: The Case of the Fall of the Ming
Carol H. Shiue, University of Colorado
Discussant: Ken Pomeranz, University of Chicago
Noble No More: Institutional Commitment, Elite Recruitment, and Political Purges
Shuo Chen, Fudan University
Discussant: Edoardo Teso, Northwestern University
Keynote Talk: The Rise of the Chinese Communist Party
James Kung, Melbourne University
Session 5: Ideology and Economics
Ideas Mobilize People: The Diffusion of Communist Ideology in China
Ying Bai, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Ruixue Jia, UCSD
Discussant: Arunabh Ghosh, Harvard University
Ideology and Economic Change: the Contrasting Paths to the Modern Economy in the late 19th China and Japan
Debin Ma, Oxford University, Jared Rubin, Chapman University
Discussant: Yasheng Huang, MIT
Session 6: Policies, Politics, and Culture
The Short- and Long-Run Effects of Affirmative Action: Evidence from Imperial China
Melanie Meng Xue, LSE
Discussant: Richard Von Glahn, UCLA
Classicism and Modern Growth: The Shadow of the Sages
Chicheng Ma, University of Hong Kong
Discussant: James Kung, Melbourne University
Additional Information for Participants
Directions:
Hyatt House to Kellogg Global Hub
Kellogg Global Hub to Koi Fine Asian Cuisine & Lounge
Hyatt House to Koi Fine Asian Cuisine & Lounge
Helpful directions to our department may also be found here.
Restaurants near Hyatt House:
Cupitol Coffee & Eatery
Pâtisserie Coralie
Todoroki
Kansaku
Soulwich
Frida’s Breakfast and Lunch
Tapas Barcelona
NaKorn Urban Thai
Giordano’s
For more information please reach out to Kayla Johnson at kayla.johnson@northwestern.edu