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About Ghassan Moazzin
Ghassan Moazzin is an Assistant Professor at the Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences and the Department of History at the University of Hong Kong. He works on the economic and business history of 19th and 20th century China, with a particular focus on the history of foreign banking, international finance and electricity in modern China. His first book, Foreign Banks and Global Finance in Modern China: Banking on the Chinese Frontier, 1870–1919, was recently published by Cambridge University Press.
Ghassan Moazzin is an Assistant Professor at the University of Hong Kong. He works on the economic and business history of 19th and 20th century China. You can find out more about his work on his website. He is also on twitter @ghassanmoazzin.
NBN Episodes hosted by Ghassan:
February 20, 2023
Accounting for the Fall of Silver
The second half of the nineteenth century is correctly known to have culminated in the emergence of the gold standard as the first truly international…
August 29, 2022
France and Germany in the South China Sea, c. 1840-1930
France and Germany in the South China Sea, c. 1840-1930 Maritime Competition and Imperial Power (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021) explores imperial power and…
April 27, 2022
Red Silk
Red Silk: Class, Gender, and Revolution in China's Yangzi Delta Silk Industry (Harvard UP, 2020) is a history of China's Yangzi Delta silk industry du…
December 3, 2021
Economic Thought in Modern China
In Economic Thought in Modern China: Market and Consumption, c.1500–1937 (Cambridge University Press, 2020), Margherita Zanasi argues that basic notio…
October 1, 2021
Recharging China in War and Revolution, 1882-1955
In Recharging China in War and Revolution, 1882–1955 (Cornell University Press, 2021), Ying Jia Tan explores the fascinating politics of Chinese power…
September 1, 2021
China and the End of Global Silver, 1873–1937
In the late nineteenth century, as much of the world adopted some variant of the gold standard, China remained the most populous country still using s…
June 29, 2021
Made in Hong Kong
Between 1949 and 1997, Hong Kong transformed from a struggling British colonial outpost into a global financial capital. Made in Hong Kong: Transpacif…
June 7, 2021
Pirates and Publishers
Pirates and Publishers: A Social History of Copyright in Modern China (Princeton University Press, 2019) is a detailed historical look at how copyrigh…
May 13, 2021
Global Trade in the Nineteenth Century
In Global Trade in the Nineteenth Century: The House of Houqua and the Canton System (Cambridge University Press, 2016), John D. Wong examines the Can…