#BHC2024 #MentoringWeek coming soon. Emerging Scholars you are welcome to be part of it during the first week of March. Organizers ESC Committee: Ghassan Moazzin Ellen Nye Adam Frost Paula Vedoveli Chris Nitschke & myself.

A friendly reminder that the #deadline for submissions to the #specialissue in Business History ✨ In the Absence of Archives: Lessons from Less Developed Countries ✨ is March 31st. Guest editors Adam Frost Marcelo Bucheli Grietjie Verhoef buff.ly/3s4AReF #bizhis #cfp

Today is publication day! A critical history of news, technology, and politics, the book sheds new light on the emergence of modern mass societies, not only in China but around the world. Happy to share a discount code through SUP. Questions welcome!

Open access Recognizing that there were no alternatives to these conventional metrics, despite numerous critiques (including from the CPI’s own creator), I piloted the Unbundled Corruption Index. economist.com.na/86819/speak-yo…

my chapter in this report argues for a self-interested defense of academic engagement with China. It's no longer sufficient to justify engagement on liberal internationalist goals. But universities and gov't actors could do more 1/8

My new article "Beyond revolutions: Mao-era China’s market entry strategies in Latin America" is now online. Many thanks to Ghassan Moazzin John Wong and Jin-A Kang for my inclusion in the special issue in businesshistory!tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Revising history manuscript for audience of management scholars

More adventures in cross-disciplinary writing: This time, adding a management theoretical framing to my history article

As The Economist notes, Harvard, along with our peer institutions, are revitalizing student programs and academic engagement with China.  A new Harvard Summer School is being launched in cooperation with Fudan University in Shanghai. economist.com/china/2024/05/…

linkedin.com/posts/billions… Excited to have joined Harvard University's symposium on the global future of higher ed! Check out Daedalus' issue on this topic rb.gy/cdgnap and my essay on private sector universities in India: rb.gy/jr6vpk. Harvard Business School The Mittal Institute at Harvard

3rd World Congress of Business History to be held in Toronto in 2026 worldcbh.org

The latest issue of Capitalism: A Journal of History and Economics is OUT! FREE ACCESS FOR ONE MONTH!!! Please RT to help us expand access!!! 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻Jonathan Donald Jenner Helen Tilley Tim Barker Chris Hughes marc flandreau CN Biltoft Penn Press muse.jhu.edu/issue/53014

🚨Amazing new China studies resource🚨: ACLS has published an online compilation of open-access databases, archives, and subject guides The page will be regularly updated and you can suggest other databases to include. Check it out 👇 acls.org/resources/open…

This is how I prefer to be addressed in all future correspondence:

A call for papers for a timely symposium on “The Politics of Knowledge Production about China” which will be held by The China Quarterly The China Quarterly at SOAS in mid-late June 2025. Main questions that will be discussed include - How can China scholars around the world

Congratulations to Adam Frost (of Copenhagen Business School) , and Zeren LI (of Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy NUS) who have been awarded the 2024 Gordon White Prize for their article "Markets under Mao: Measuring Underground Activity in the Early PRC” (OA). doi.org/10.1017/S03057…

My article with Zeren LI was awarded the Gordon White Prize from China Quarterly. The article offers a counter-narrative of China's economic development, revealing the scope of underground market activity even during the height of anti-capitalist campaigns in the 1960-70s.

China’s new retirement age for males born in 1970/12 is 61.5, and females is 55.25. With life expectancy 81.5 🇩🇰 vs 79 🇨🇳 and China’s much longer working hours (2450 hrs vs 🇩🇰 1563), Chinese work 4600 hours for 1 year of retirement, while Danes need to work for 6500 hours.

One of my dissertation papers was awarded a prize at Academy of Management. The paper reveals how market administrators in Maoist China selectively enforced anti-market policies, reshaping institutions from below and creating the conditions for tacit market creation.

Who's going to break it to this author that it wasn't the singing of canaries that alerted miners to toxic gases?