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Ghassan Moazzin @ghassanmoazzin.bsky.social · Jul 28

Things are about to get started at #WEHC2025 in Lund

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Ghassan Moazzin @ghassanmoazzin.bsky.social · Jul 14

And thank you to all the reviewers!

Ghassan Moazzin @ghassanmoazzin.bsky.social · Jul 14

Many thanks to Pierre-Yves Donzé for all his help as Associate Editor with this special issue!

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Ghassan Moazzin @ghassanmoazzin.bsky.social · Jul 14

Ren Jian. “Beyond Revolutions: Mao-Era China’s Market Entry Strategies in Latin America.” Business History, (2024), 1–15. www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

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Beyond revolutions: Mao-era China’s market entry strategies in Latin America

How did the People’s Republic of China develop commercial relations with the Global South during its Maoist years? This paper aims to explore the question through China’s market entry strategies in...

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Ghassan Moazzin @ghassanmoazzin.bsky.social · Jul 14

Carles Brasó Broggi. “The Rise of Hong Kong’s Textile Industry, 1945–1974: The Role of the Hong Kong Spinners Association (HKSA).” Business History, (2024), 1–19. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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The rise of Hong Kong’s textile industry, 1945–1974: The role of the Hong Kong Spinners Association (HKSA)

After the Second World War, Hong Kong attracted industrial capital from China, especially in the cotton spinning. As the bamboo curtain unfolded, this sector sought trade opportunities in foreign m...

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Ghassan Moazzin @ghassanmoazzin.bsky.social · Jul 14

Peter E. Hamilton. “Management Thought and Practice in 1920s China.” Business History, (2024), 1–21. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Management thought and practice in 1920s China

This article significantly revises our understanding of ‘scientific management’ in 1920s China. First introduced in 1911 via transpacific networks, scientific management gained traction among Chine...

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Ghassan Moazzin @ghassanmoazzin.bsky.social · Jul 14

@khirata.bsky.social. “Mining the informal empire: Sino-Japanese relations and ironmaking in Manchuria, 1909–1931”. Business History, (2024), 1–18. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Ghassan Moazzin @ghassanmoazzin.bsky.social · Jul 14

Bill Kelson. “Manias, Panics, & Land: The Property Bubbles of the Great Chinese Crash of the 1880s.” Business History, (2024), 1–26. www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

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Manias, panics, & land: The property bubbles of the great Chinese crash of the 1880s: Business History: Vol 0, No 0 - Get Access

Browse all journals

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Ghassan Moazzin @ghassanmoazzin.bsky.social · Jul 14

This also means that the complete special issue is now available online:

Meng Wu. “Governance structure, organizational form, and business performance: A study of the Shanxi piaohao (banks), 1820s–1930s." Business History, (2024), 1–27. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Ghassan Moazzin @ghassanmoazzin.bsky.social · Jul 14

50 free copies: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/ZTVD6...

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Modern Chinese enterprise and the global economy: A historiographical essay

In this introduction to the special issue ‘The Global Economy and the Origins of Modern Chinese Business’, we first provide a historiographical overview of the development of modern Chinese busines...

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Ghassan Moazzin @ghassanmoazzin.bsky.social · Jul 14

Very happy to see the introduction to the special issue in @businesshistory.bsky.social I co-edited with John D. Wong and Jin-A Kang and Jin-A Kang titled "The Global Economy and the Origins of Modern Chinese Business" published

Link: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Ghassan Moazzin @ghassanmoazzin.bsky.social · Jul 2

Thanks!

Ghassan Moazzin @ghassanmoazzin.bsky.social · Jun 26

Photo Source: The Far Eastern Review (October 1914)

Ghassan Moazzin @ghassanmoazzin.bsky.social · Jun 26

on different iterations of the project, and to @tobylincoln.bsky.social for the early encouragement. Now all that remains is writing the book:)

Photo: The Hanyang Iron and Steel Works in 1914

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Ghassan Moazzin @ghassanmoazzin.bsky.social · Jun 26

and is aimed at students, scholars and a wider public. I particularly hope that I will be able to bring the rich new Chinese-language scholarship on Chinese business history to a wider audience. I am grateful to John Wong, @philipthai.bsky.social and @khirata.bsky.social for comments[2/3]

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Ghassan Moazzin @ghassanmoazzin.bsky.social · Jun 26

Very happy to have signed a contract with @universitypress.cambridge.org for a book tentatively titled "A Business History of Modern China: c. 1800 to the Present". The book will cover the historical evolution of Chinese enterprise over the past two centuries [1/3]

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Ghassan Moazzin @ghassanmoazzin.bsky.social · May 30

For the @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social, I spoke to Prof. Xing Hang about his fascinating new book 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘗𝘰𝘳𝘵: 𝘏𝑎̀ 𝘛𝘪𝑒̂𝘯 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘔𝘰 𝘊𝘭𝘢𝘯 𝘪𝘯 𝘌𝘢𝘳𝘭𝘺 𝘔𝘰𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘯 𝘈𝘴𝘪𝘢

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Ghassan Moazzin @ghassanmoazzin.bsky.social · Apr 29

Thanks for the wonderful talk!

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Micah Muscolino @mmuscolino.bsky.social · Apr 17

"Book tour" for Remaking the Earth, Exhausting the People (due out July 2025), which will mostly involve staring at a laptop, begins with virtual lecture organized by Hong Kong University.
April 29, 2025 9:00-10:00 HKT,April 28, 2025 18:00-19:00 PDT. Registration: hku.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

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Ghassan Moazzin @ghassanmoazzin.bsky.social · Apr 17

Very happy to receive my contributor's copy in the mail:

*Climate Change and Business: Historical Perspectives*, edited by Teresa da Silva Lopes, Paul Duguid and Robert Fredona

Coming out officially at the end of the month

www.routledge.com/Climate-Chan...

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National Humanities Center @natlhumanities.bsky.social · Apr 14

We’re pleased to announce the appointment of 32 Fellows for the 2025–26 academic year. These leading scholars will come to the Center from universities and colleges in 13 US states and the District of Columbia as well as Canada and Hong Kong. #humanities

The National Humanities Center Announces 2025–26 Fellows | National Humanities Center

The National Humanities Center will appoint 32 Fellows for the 2025–26 academic year. These leading scholars come from universities and colleges in 13 US states and the District of Columbia as well as...

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Ghassan Moazzin @ghassanmoazzin.bsky.social · Apr 14

Looking forward to this. I will be @natlhumanities.bsky.social during the spring semester 2026

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The National Humanities Center Announces 2025–26 Fellows | National Humanities Center

The National Humanities Center will appoint 32 Fellows for the 2025–26 academic year. These leading scholars come from universities and colleges in 13 US states and the District of Columbia as well as...

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Ghassan Moazzin @ghassanmoazzin.bsky.social · Mar 3

Very happy to find @khirata.bsky.social's brilliant new book in the mail:) Thanks Koji!

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Micah Muscolino @mmuscolino.bsky.social · Mar 2

A long time ago, I did research on fishing. Here's a new chapter I wrote that synthesizes work on the topic, along with whaling. (Link should be correct.)
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Fishing and Whaling

Fishing and sea-hunting appear to have played a central role in the geographical spread of humans throughout the globe. In some places and times, early fishing activities had a significant impact upo....

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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · Feb 3

How was state-building assisted by the creation long-distance telephony in mid-C20th China?

'Incomplete Infrastructure: State-Building and the Early History of China’s Long-Distance Telephone Network, 1900–1937', by Ghassan Moazzin: bit.ly/3WJLC2c Now available, Open Access in 'Transactions' 1/2

Front page of new Transactions article by Ghassan Moazzin, entitled: 'Incomplete Infrastructure: State-Building and the Early History of China’s Long-Distance Telephone Network, 1900–1937', and a map of telephone networks from 1936 from the article.

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