The Puzzle of National Markets and Standards of Living: China’s Economic History Revisited
Thursday 7 May 2009
Convenors: Andrea Janku (SOAS), Kent Deng (LSE)
Venue: SOAS, College Buildings, Room 4418
10.00 – 11.30
Li Bozhong (Qinghua University)
China's National Markets 1550-1840
Mark Elvin (Australian National University/St Antony's College, Oxford/Institute of Chinese Studies, Heidelberg)
Cash and Commerce in the Poems of Qing China
11.45 – 13.15
Joseph P. Mcdermott (Cambridge University)
Famine and Integration: the Mid-Southern Song Turn
Timothy Brook (Oxford University)
The Famine Price of Grain, 1451-1651: Price History and the Fall of the Ming
14.45 – 16.30
Lars Laamann (SOAS)
China’s Soporific Saviour: Opium Farming in the Post-Taiping Period (1860s-1906)
Andrea Janku (SOAS)
From Natural to National Disaster: The North-China Famine of 1928-31 in the Chinese Press
Kent Deng (LSE)
The Communist State with Maoist Living Standards, 1956-1976
Contact: Dr. Andrea Janku
This event is sponsored by the Centre of Chinese Studies and the Department of History, SOAS.
