| Friday, September 9th |
| 09:00-18:00 | Arrival and Registration: Howard Johnson Caida Plaza |
| 18:00-20:00 | Reception: Howard Johnson Caida Plaza |
| Saturday, September 10th Venue: Room 807, School of Economics, SUFE |
| 08:30-09:00 | Opening Ceremony
Chair: Fang Wang (Associate Professor, School of Economics, SUFE)
Welcome Remarks:
Liming Fan (President and Professor, SUFE)
Mingkong Wei (President, Chinese Economic History Society; Research Fellow, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences)
Lin Cheng (Chairman and Professor of Department of Economic History, SUFE; Vice Chairperson of the Association for History of Chinese Economic Thought) |
| 09:00-11:40 | Session I
Chair: Debin Ma (Associate Professor, Department of Economic History, The London School of Economics and Political Science) |
| 09:00-10:10 | Avner Greif (Professor, Economics Department, Stanford University)
The Clan and the City: Sustaining Cooperation in China and Europe |
| 10:10-10:40 | Group Photo & Tea Break |
| 10:40-11:40 | David Faure (Professor, History Department, Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Why Filial Piety is Good for Business: Respect for Ancestor as a Business Principle in the Ming and the Qing |
| 11:50-12:50 | Lunch (Howard Johnson Caida Plaza) |
| 13:10-17:50 | Session II
Chair: Hongzhong Yan (Professor, School of Economics, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics) |
| 13:10-14:10 | Zhiwu Chen (Professor, School of Management, Yale University)
The Risks of Being Emperors: Unnatural Death of Emperors in Historical China from a Comparative Perspective |
| 14:10-14:20 | Coffee Break |
| 14:20-15:20 | Carol Shiue (Associate Professor, Economics Department, University of Colorado at Boulder)
Long-Run Trends in Social Mobility: An Analysis with Five Linked Generations in China, 1300-1900 |
| 15:20-15:30 | Coffee Break |
| 15:30-16:30 | Matthew Sommer (Professor, History Department, Stanford University)
The Economics of Wife Sales in Qing Dynasty China |
| 16:30-16:40 | Coffee Break |
| 16:40-17:40 | Xuncheng Du (Professor, School of Economics, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics)
Statutory Laws and Customary Laws in the Economic Development of Early Modern China |
| 18:00-20:00 | Dinner |
| Sunday, September 11th Venue: Room 807, School of Economics, SUFE |
| 08:40-12:00 | Session III
Chair: Chaoqun Gao (Research Fellow, Institute of Economics, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences) |
| 08:40-09:40 | Debin Ma (Associate Professor, Department of Economic History, The London School of Economics and Political Science)
The Paradox of Power: Understanding Fiscal Capacity in Qing China and Absolutist Regimes |
| 09:40-09:50 | Coffee Break |
| 10:00-10:50 | Wenxiang Wei (Professor, Institute of Modern Chinese History, Central China Normal University)
Between Tax Collection and Protest: Early Modern Merchant Groups and the Collection of Income Tax in Tianjin |
| 10:50-11:10 | Coffee Break |
| 11:10-12:00 | Zhijian Qiao (Ph.D. Candidate, History Department, Stanford University)
Merchants at the Helm: Trade Guilds and the Rise of a New Social Order in Qing Dynasty Hohhot |
| 12:10-13:20 | Lunch (Howard Johnson Caida Plaza) |
| 13:30-17:40 | Session IV
Chair: Lin Cheng (Professor and Chairman of the Economic History Department, School of Economics, SUFE) |
| 13:30-14:20 | Chaoqun Gao (Research Fellow, Institute of Economics, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences)
The Origins of Early Modern Enterprises: A Study from the Perspective of the History of Ideas |
| 14:20-14:30 | Coffee Break |
| 14:30-15:20 | Hongzhong Yan (Professor, School of Economics, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics)
The Modern Enterprises and Office Purchase in Late Qing: An Empirical Study Based on the Resume Records of Qing Dynasty Officials |
| 15:20-15:40 | Coffee Break |
| 15:40-16:30 | Liqiang Lin (Professor, School of History and Social Studies, Fujian Normal University)
Christianity and Business Management: Christian Entrepreneurs in Tianjin and Shanghai during the Republican Era |
| 16:30-16:40 | Coffee Break |
| 16:40-17:40 | Sen Wei (Professor, School of Economics, Fudan University)
The Use and Abuse of Knowledge in Society: the Hayekian Theory of Division of Knowledge and Money Management in a Society |
| 18:00-20:00 | Dinner |
