New Books Network

I am one of the hosts of the new Economic and Business History Channel at the New Books Network. There, I interview scholars about their recent books in the fields of economic and business history. So far, I have interviewed the following scholars about their books:

Michael Schiltz, Accounting for the Fall of Silver: Hedging Currency Risk in Long-Distance Trade with Asia, 1870-1913 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020) [20 February 2023].

Bert Becker, France and Germany in the South China Sea, c. 1840-1930
Maritime Competition and Imperial Power
(Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021) [29 August 2022].

Robert Cliver, Red Silk: Class, Gender, and Revolution in China’s Yangzi Delta Silk Industry (Cambridge, MA: Harvard Asia Center, 2020) [27 April 2022].

Margherita Zanasi, Economic Thought in Modern China: Market and Consumption, c.1500-1937 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020) [3 December 2021].

Economic Thought in Modern China

Ying Jia Tan, Recharging China in War and Revolution, 1882-1955 (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2021) [1 October 2021].

Austin Dean, China and the End of Global Silver, 1873-1937 (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2020) [1 September 2021].

Peter E. Hamilton, Made in Hong Kong: Transpacific Networks and a New History of Globalization (New York: Columbia University Press, 2021) [29 June 2021].

Made in Hong Kong

Fei-Hsien Wang, Pirates and Publishers: A Social History of Copyright in Modern China (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2019) [7 June 2021]

John D. Wong, Global Trade in the Nineteenth Century: The House of Houqua and the Canton System (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016) [13 May 2021]

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