Many thanks again for having me! I look forward to sharing our work in two weeks. As it is still in the preliminary stages, we welcome any comments and feedback to help shape the next step!

Now on Early View: 'Goodbye connections, hello Bagehot: democratization, lender of last resort independence and bank failures in Spain in 1931'. By Enrique Jorge-Sotelo. Enrique Jorge-Sotelo UB School of Economics onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/eh…

It has been an incredible experience to share my book proposal, “Silver Remittance Across the Empire: Growth, Governance Structure, and Business Strategy of the Chinese Shanxi Piaohao Banks, 1820s–1930s,” at the Business History Conference’s Emerging Scholars Book Proposal

Chris Dyer (Leicester) is now presenting “Reconsidering Medieval Living Standards, With Some Help From Material Culture” 👇

📣Calling all L19thC researchers! CFP for upcoming School of English (University of St Andrews) conference ‘Undercover Agents: Women, Crime, and Detection in the Global Nineteenth Century’ Deadline: 30 April See below for more information

In a turbulent, Trumpian world, expect many Western countries to decide that confronting China over values or geopolitics is a luxury they can ill afford. That doesn’t mean relations will be smooth - huge tensions over trade remain. My column from Beijing economist.com/international/…

Although China was the first country to adopt the silver standard for regulating paper money, it abolished paper currency in the fifteenth century. In this paper, we examine how China reintroduced silver-backed paper money in the nineteenth century to modernise the financial

Toke Aidt (Cambridge) is now presenting "Can democratic reforms promote political activism? Evidence from the Great Reform Act of 1832", with Gabriel Leon-Ablan (KCL) 👇🏼

Thank you to Meng Wu for closing the series with a fascinating presentation

Giuseppe de Feo (Liverpool) is now presenting his paper “Mafia and Social Order” 👇

I’m delighted to share my article in the ABH newsletter, "Trust, Private Rules, and the Principal-Agent Problem: How China’s Remittance Bankers Made It Work." This piece is based on my research paper “Governance Structure, Organisational Form, and Business Performance: A Study

In his renowned travelogue The Travels of Marco Polo (1298), Marco Polo offered one of the earliest Western accounts of paper money in use during the Yuan Dynasty under Mongol rule. I’m pleased to share that the Hoover Prosperity Program Hoover Institution has published my conference

🎶From reverent compositions to subversive street ballads🎶 Queen Victoria’s image was contested and co-opted through 19th-century popular song. Learn more about the monarch’s complex cultural after life in music: jvc.oup.com/2021/09/16/mus…

A pleasure to talk about serfdom and my Leverhulme project yesterday at the Arthur Lewis Lab for Comparative Development. Oxford Economic & Social History The Arthur Lewis Lab for Comparative Development The Leverhulme Trust #echist

Thank you, Ghassan!

Thrilled to have presented at the Association of Business Historians Annual Conference, held at Queen's Belfast University last month. Our paper, 'Adjustments and Vicissitudes: The Indirect Issuance of Banknotes in Republican China, 1897-1945' studies how silver-backed paper

Many thanks for accepting our work. I'm looking forward to meeting colleagues and sharing my research on paper money issuance in Republican China!

Thank for @Ghassan, @John, and Jin-A for your tremendous support throughout this rewarding journey. So delighted that my work published alongside other excellent papers on Chinese business history!

This summer, I presented my work on Republican China’s paper money at two great conferences. The conference “Chinese Economic History in the Great Divergence” was held at Fudan University, where I was invited to share and discuss my research with financial historians based in