PUBLICATIONS:
Books:
*2003 The state and market in modern China (Hong Kong: Hong Kong Educational Publishing
Company), pp. v, 372.
2001 (Co-editor), Australian Journal of Politics and History 47, 1 (special issue: Labour
relations in Asia).
*2000 The reminiscences of Charles Cheng Che Lee (Taipei: Institute of Modern History,
Academia Sincia), pp. vii, 407.
1998 (Co-editor) Tradition and metamorphosis in modern Chinese history: essays in honor of
Professor Kwang-Ching Liu’s seventy-fifth birthday (Taipei: Institute of Modern History,
Academia Sinica), 2 vols, pp. 1345.
Chapters in books:
2010 “Qing Government and Private Enterprises: Xiangshan Compradors and the China
Merchants’ Company,” in Wang Yuan-ming ed., Xiangshan Compradors and
Modern China, Guangdong People’s Press, pp. 90-102.
2007
2006
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2006
2006
2005
2005
2005
“1911 Revolution and the Cutting of the Queue,” in Social and Folk Culture in
Li Chang Li ed., Modern China,” Social Sciences Academic Press, Beijing,
pp.133-146.
With Hamilton, Gary G. , Chang, wei-an, “The importance of commerce in
the organization of China’s Late-imperial economy,” in Hamilton, Gary G.,
Commerce and Capitalism in Chinese Societies, Routledge, London, pp. 93126.
“Merchant Discourse on Self-interest in Modern China, “ in Zarrow, Peter
ed., Creating Chinese Modernity: Knowledge and Everyday Life, 1900-1940,
Peter Lang, New York, pp. 99-118.
“Modern Chinese Economic and Business History: Past and Present, in
Wang Winghua ed., China in Multi-Perspectives, Shulan, Shanghai, pp. 171178.
“Business Networks of Xiangshan Merchants in Modern Guangdong, in
Wang Yuan-ming ed., Xiangshan Culture, Guangdong People’s Press,
pp. 109-124.
'Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank', in History of World Trade since 1450, eds
J J McCusker, D J Hancock, S Engerman, L Cain and Kenneth LP,
Macmillan Press Ltd and St Martin's Press Inc, USA, pp. 363 - 364.
'Li Hungshang and Modern Enterprises: The China Merchants Company',
in The Studies of the China Merchants Company, eds Y Huili and H Zhan,
The Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing, pp. 434 - 471.
“Properties Disputes of Jinliyuan Wharf during the mid 80's of the 19th
Century”, in The Studies of the China Merchants Company, eds Y Huili
and H Zhan, The Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing, pp. 618 –
2005
2005
2005
2005
2004
2003
2002
2001
1999
1999
1998
1998
1998
624.
'The Management and Operation Problems in the China Merchants
Company', in The Studies of the China Merchants Company, eds Y Huili
and H Zhan, The Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing, pp. 259 –
321.
'The Nationalization Issues in the China Merchants Company', in The
Studies of the China Merchants Company, eds Y Huili and H Zhan, The
Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing, pp. 322 - 360.
'The Queue During the 1911 Revolution', in Sun Zhongshan, 1911
Revolution and Modern China, eds L Qi Yan, L Jinqiang and B Shanlin,
Modern Chinese History Association of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, pp.
304 - 319.
'Zhongshan Merchants Business Activities in China and the World', in
Modern China and the World, eds Institute of Modern History Academy
of Social Sciences, Social Sciences Academic Press, Beiging, pp. 569 –
583.
'The Translation of Steamship Business, 1826-1873', in Maritime China
in Transition 1750-1850, eds W Gungwa & N Chin-keong,
Harrassowitz Verlag, Wiesbaden, pp. 299 - 316.
“Chinese business history: its development, present situation, and future
direction”, in
Franco Amatory and Geoffrey Jones (eds), Business history round the world (Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press), pp.298-316.
“Sheng Hsuan-huai and the operational problems of the China Merchants’ Company”, in
Ip Yeili (ed.), Twentieth century studies on Sheng Hsuan-huai (Jiangsu: People’s Press),
pp. 217-78.
“Between practical statesmanship and democratic thought: Kuo Sung-tao and his reform
ideas”, in Yeh-chien Wang, Tse Tu Chen and Hon-wai Ho (eds), Chinese economy:
Tradition and modern transformation (Taipei: Tuxiang), pp. 443-81.
“Chung-shan merchants’ business networks”, Essays in Chinese maritime history (Taipei:
Sun Yat-sen Institute for Social Science and Philosophy, Academia Sinica), vol. 7, pp.
233-55.
“The business networks of Hsiang-shan merchant groups in modern China”, in Zhang
Zhongli (ed.), The modern Chinese city: social and economic development (Shanghai:
The Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences Press), pp. 345-61.
“Recent trends in enterprise case studies and an overview of archival sources”, in Andrea
McElderry and Bob Gardella (eds), Scholarly research on Chinese business history:
interpretive trends and priorities for the future (Armonk: M.E. Sharpe), pp. 169-88.
“A lawsuit over the ownership of the Jinliyuan wharf in the French concession in the
1880s”, in Zhang Zhongli (ed.), Zhongguo Jindai Chengshi Qiye, Shehui [Modern
Chinese city: enterprise, society and space] (Shanghai: The Shanghai Academy of Social
Sciences Press), pp. 48-53.
“The adventurous tradition of Hsiang-Shan merchants”, in Yen-Ping Hao, Wei Hsiu-mei,
Chi-Kong Lai, Kai-Wing Chow, and Stephen Mackinnon (eds), Tradition and
metamorphosis in modern Chinese history: essays in honor of Professor Kwang-Ching
Liu’s seventy-fifth birthday (Taipei: Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica), vol. 1,
pp. 517-45.
1998 (Co-author) “K.C. Liu: in appreciation”, in Yen-Ping Hao, Wei Hsiu-mei, Chi-Kong Lai,
Kai-Wing Chow, and Stephen Mackinnon (eds), Tradition and metamorphosis in modern
Chinese history: Essays in honor of Professor Kwang-Ching Liu’s seventy-fifth birthday
(Taipei: Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica, vol. 2, pp. 1-18.
1998 “Revisiting K. C. Liu,” in Yen-Ping Hao, Wei Hsiu-mei, Chi-Kong Lai, Kai-Wing Chow,
and Stephen Mackinnon (eds), Tradition and metamorphosis in modern Chinese history:
Essays in honor of Professor Kwang-Ching Liu’s seventy-fifth birthday (Taipei: Institute
of Modern History, Academia Sinica, vol. 2, pp. 1321-32.
1995 “Li Hung-chang yu hsin-hsing ch’i-yeh [Li Hung-chang and the rise of modern
enterprise]”, in Samuel C. Chu and Kwang-ching Liu (eds), Li Hung-chang yu Chungkuo chin-tai-fa (Shanghai: Ku-chi), pp. 265-302.
1994 “Li Hung-chang and modern enterprise: the China Merchants’ Company, 1872-1885”, in
Samuel C. Chu and Kwang-ching Liu (eds), Li Hung-chang and China’s early
modernization (Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe), pp. 216-47.
1992 “The Qing state and merchant enterprise: the China Merchants’ Company, 1872-1902”,
in Jane Kate Leonard and John R. Watt (eds), To achieve security and wealth: the Qing
imperial state and the economy, 1644-1911 (Ithaca, NY: Cornell East Asian Series, 1992),
pp. 139-55. Reprinted in Rajeswary Brown (ed.), Chinese enterprise history (London:
Routledge, 1996) vol. 4, pp. 98-111.
1990 (Co-author) “Cheng Kuan-ying’s I-yen: reform proposals of the early Kuang hsu period”
[in Chinese], in Kwang-ching Liu (ed.), Ching-shih ssu-hsiang yu hsin-hsing ch’i-yeh
[Statecraft, thought and the rise of enterprise] (Taipei: Lien-ching), pp. 417-522.
1989 “Recent historiography on the self-strengthening movement” [in Chinese], in Scholarship
on modern Chinese history during the past six decades (Taipei: Institute of Modern
History, Academia Sinica), vol. 2, pp. 690-718.
1989 (Co-author) “Consumerism without capitalism”, in Benjamin Orlove and Henry Rutz
(eds), The social economy of consumption (Lanham: University Press of America), pp.
253-79. Reprinted in Rajeswary Brown (ed.), Chinese enterprise history (London:
Routledge, 1996), vol. 3, pp. 315-38.
Articles in refereed journals:
2001 (Co-author) “Labour relations in Asia”, Australian Journal of Politics and History, 47, 1,
pp. 1-3.
1998 “Imagining and constructing nationhood: hairstyles in modern China”, Thought and
Works: Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences [Ssu yu Yen], (special issue), pp.
98-111.
1995 “The historiography of maritime East Asia since c.1975”, Research in Maritime History 8:
International Historiography of Maritime History, pp. 1-27.
1994 “China’s first modern corporation and the state” [abstract], The Journal of Economic
History, 54, 2, pp. 432-34; review by Carol E. Heim, pp. 441-45.
1990 “The managerial and operational problems of the China Merchants’ Company, 18731901”, Bulletin of the Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica (Taipei) 19, pp. 67108.
1988 “The proposal to nationalize the China Merchants’ Steam Navigation Company, 18781881”, Bulletin of the Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica (Taipei), 17, pp.1540.
1987 “Ssu-ma Ch’ien as a Confucian historian”, Chinese Culture (Taipei) 28, 1, pp.1-21.
1984 “In search of wealth—Kuo Sung-tao and his economic thought”, Chinese Culture
(Taipei), 25, 3, pp. 53-79.
Encyclopedia Entries (refereed)
2009
2009
2009
2009
2009
“Li Hung-chang”, in David Pond ed., Encyclopedia of Modern China, (Detroit, Charles
Scribner’s Sons), Vol. 2, pp. 460-463.
“Hairstyles”, in David Pond ed., Encyclopedia of Modern China, (Detroit, Charles
Scribner’s Sons), Vol. 2, pp. 169-173
“Fashion,” in David Pond ed., Encyclopedia of Modern China, (Detroit, Charles
Scribner’s Sons), Vol. 2, pp. 22-27
(With Delia Davin), “Lu zuofu”, in David Pond ed., Encyclopedia of Modern
China, (Detroit, Charles Scribner’s Sons), Vol. 2, pp. 534-536.
“The China Merchants’ Steam Navigation Company”, in David Pond ed.,
Encyclopedia of Modern China, (Detroit, Charles Scribner’s Sons), Vol. 1,
pp. 213-215.
Other publications:
2007 With Kam, M., Chadwick, T. and Masih, E.， “International Workshop: New
Paradigms of Chinese Business History: Conception and Case Studies,” Chinese
Business History, 17: 2 (Spring 2007).
2004 'International long-hair eye-catcher Dai Yueqin', View, 36(Oct), pp. 36 - 39.
2005 'Kite, long hair and natural beauty', View, 40(Feb), pp. 34 - 35.
1999 “Games of chance: business and finance in modern China, 1870-1990”, Abstracts of the
1999 Annual Meeting (Boston: Association of Asian Studies), pp. 99-101.
1998 “Chinese business networks”, International Institute for Asian Studies Newsletter, 17, p.
29.
1997 “The Asian Business History Centre at the University of Queensland” in Newsletter for
Modern Chinese History (Taipei) 24, pp. 128-38.
1997 “The speculative tradition of Hsiang-Shan merchants”, Newsletter for Research in
Chinese Studies (Taiwan, Resource & Information Center for Chinese Studies) 62, p. 212.
1997 “Asian Business History Centre”, South China Research Station Newsletter (Hong Kong
University of Science and Technology) 9, pp. 13-14.
1995 “Nanjing: second historical archives”, Chinese Business History 5, 2, pp. 2-3.
1995 “A research report on six week to China”, Newsletter of the Academy of Social Science in
Australia 4, pp. 20-21.
1994 “Cantonese business networks in late nineteenth-century Shanghai”, in Edwin Perkins
(ed.), Essays in economic and business history: Proceedings of the Economic Business
History Society (Los Angeles: University of Southern California), pp. 145-54.
1994 “Corporate history: China’s first joint-stock company, 1872-1902”, Access China (Center
for Chinese Political Economy, Macquarie University), pp. 23-25.
1992 “Self-strengthening movement”, “Shih Ta-K’ai”, “Wei Ch’ang-hui”, “Kuo Sung-t’ao”, in
Edwin Pak-wah Leung (ed.), Historical dictionary of revolutionary China, 1839-1976
(New York: Greenwood Press), pp. 200-202, 358-59, 364-66, 459-61.
1992 “State policy and China’s first joint-stock company in the mid-nineteenth century”,
Cliometrics Society Newsletter 1992.
1991 (Co-author) “G. William Skinner”, Newsletter For Modern Chinese History (Taipei), 11,
pp. 115-30.
1990 (Translator) “Consumerism without capitalism”, by Gary G. Hamilton and Chi-kong Lai,
in Gary G. Hamilton, Chinese society and economy: A
sociological perspective
(Taipei: Lien-ching), pp. 269-301.
1988 (Co-author) “Interview with Professor Daniel Kwok”, Newsletter for Research in
Chinese Studies (Taiwan, Resource & Information Center for Chinese Studies) 53, pp.
148-52.
1988 (Translator) “British-Chinese steamship rivalry in China, 1873-1885” by Kwang-ching
Liu, in Proceedings of the Conference on the Self Strengthening Movement (Taipei:
Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica), pp. 1137-62. Reprinted in Kwang-ching
Liu, Ching-shih ssu-hsiang yu hsin-hsing ch’i-yeh [Statecraft, thought and the rise of
enterprise] (Taipei: Lien-ching, 1990), pp. 525-570.
1987 (Co-author) “Jinshi Zhongguo shangbiao yu quanguo dushi shichang [Trademark and
national-urban market in late imperial China], in Proceedings of the conference on
regional studies of modern China (Taipei: Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica),
pp.49-84.
1986 (Co-author) “Interview with Professor Han-seng Chuan”, Newsletter for Research in
Chinese Studies (Taiwan, Resource & Information Center for Chinese Studies), 51,
pp.12-15.
1984 “Debate on model of economic modernization in late Ch’ing China”, Seminar Paper 21,
Center of Asian Studies, Hong Kong University.
1984 “Kuo Sung-tao’s statecraft idea [in Chinese]”, in Proceedings of the conference of the
theory of statecraft of modern China (Taipei: The Institute of Modern History, Academia
Sinica), pp.509-30.
1983 “The self strengthening movement and reform ideas”, in Wen Kao- chi (Hong Kong:
Leung Sing Tak College), pp. 9-15.
1983 “Kuo Sung-tao’s thought on modernization”, Wah Kiu Yat Po: Humanities Biweekly
(Hong Kong), Aug. 1 and 15 1983, pp. 2-3.
1982 “A story of a Ph.D”, in Financial Daily (Hong Kong), September 20.
1982 “The publication of Kuo Sung-tao’s diaries”, Financial Daily (Hong Kong), June 1 1982,
p. 8.
1982 “A preliminary study on Kuo Sung-tao’s thought on modernization”, Wah Kiu Yat Po:
Humanities Biweekly (Hong Kong), March 15 1982, p. 2.
1981 “A diary highly-recommended”, Financial Daily (Hong Kong), October 18.
1980 “Manpower and productivity in modernization”, Ming Pao: special column (Hong Kong),
September 20, p. 9.
Conference Publications
2005 'Legal Disputes Involving the China Merchants Steams Navigation Company', in
Symposium on Power and Culture in Ming-Qing Legal
Systems, 1(1), Academia Sinica, Taipei, pp. 1 - 9.
2004 'From Regional Division of Labour to Global Networks: Economic Activities of
Chungshan Merchant Groups', in International Symposium of Financial Change and
Entrepreneurial Culture in Modern China, 1(1), Institute of History, Academia Sinica,
Taipei, pp. 1 - 35.
Book Reviews:
2003
'Review of Graham E. Johnson and Glen D. Peterson, Historical dictionary of
Guangzhou (Canton) and Guangdong\plain', The China Journal, 49, pp. 220 - 221.
2003 'Review of Tim Brook and Gregory Blue
China and historical capitalism:
Genealogies of sinological knowledge, The China Journal, pp. 222-224.