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Public Lectures on History and Business inChina 2016-17Parallels and No Paradoxes?

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Public Lectures on History and Business in China 2016-17

Date:

23 Mar 2017

Time:

7:00 pm – 8:30 pm

Venue:

Lecture Theatre, G/F, Hong Kong Central Library66 Causeway Road, Causeway Bay, Hong Kong

Speaker(s):

Prof. PUK Wing KinAssociate ProfessorDepartment of History, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Biography of Speaker:

PUK Wing Kin gained his PhD degree from the Institute of Chinese Studies of the University of Oxford. He specializes in socio-economic history of late imperial China. His PhD thesis studies the history of the Ming salt certificate within the context of public finance. He is currently teaching in the Department of History, Chinese University of Hong Kong. He has published some books and academic papers, such as The Rise and Fall of a Public Debt Market in 16th-Century China: the Story of the Ming Salt Certificate (Monies, Markets, and Finance in East Asia, 1600-1900 series, Vol. 8, Leiden: Brill, 2016).

Admission:

Admission is free; reservation is required. To reserve a seat,
please
– Register online at http://www.history.cuhk.edu.hk/Event/2017_HBC/
– Call 3943 7119 / 3943 8541

Enquiries:

3943 7119 / 3943 8541

Event Details:

To be conducted in Cantonese. For more information, please visit http://www.history.cuhk.edu.hk/Event/2017_HBC/