Scholar Directory
This page aims to become a directory of professional historians, businesspeople, independent researchers and students interested in Chinese business history. The directory will allow visitors to the site to locate individuals throughout the world with interests and expertise in a variety of subjects related the history of business in China. We hope it will facilitate an easier and more expanded dialogue among scholars in the field.
If you have not already done so, please take a moment to fill out our online information form so that we may add you to the directory. Feel free to only fill in the information you would like posted to this web site.
Professor Donald Clarke
Professor of East Asian History
University of Washington School of Law
Interests: Forms of business organization in the PRC; PRC company and securities law.
Professor Parks Coble
Professor of East Asian History
University of Nebraska
Interests: Business in 20th-century China; Sino-Japanese economic and social relations; Chinese capitalists during the Japanese occupation, 1937-45
Professor Robert Gardella
Professor of History
U.S. Merchant Marine Academy
Interests: Historical development of Sino-foreign trade; History of accounting in China; The Maritime Customs in Republican China; Business partnerships in late imperial and Republican China; Chinese business organizations in Southeast Asia
Professor Jeff Hornibrook
Associate Professor
State University of New York, Plattsburgh
Interests: History of coal mine modernization in Pingxiang County, Jiangxi Province, including lineage trusts, railroad construction, and factory development
Professor KWAN Man Bun
Department of History
University of Cincinnati
Interests: Yongli-Jiuda, contracts, land deeds, cronyism, network capitalism
Mr. Ting LU
Ph.D. student
U.C. Berkeley
Interests: Financial history of China, transitional economies and banking
Professor Maria Chan Morgan
Earlham College
Interests: The development of the Chinese automobile industry in Communist China; Enterprise reform in contemporary China; Private sector activities in contemporary China
Doctor Perry N. Ritenour
Senior Vice President
Santa Barbara Bank and Trust
Interests: Chinese banking institutions and trade finance, 1949-1979
Professor Tim Wright
Professor of Chinese Studies
University of Sheffield
Interests: Coal mining companies in the Republican period; Chinese business during the 1930s world depression; The historiography of China's economy and business; Economic reform in the contemporary Chinese coal mining industry
Ms. WU Qingyang
Student, L'Ecole Superieure de Commerce de Rennes
(Groupe ESC Rennes) France
Interests: The history of Chinese banking after the establishment of the PR.China
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