Short Courses by Professors from Overseas 2021

Spring semester 2021

1. Historical, Global, and Environmental Perspectives on Chinese Economic Development (经济学讲座5，ECON830053)

Instructor: R. Bin Wong, Distinguished Professor of History, UCLA

http://www.history.ucla.edu/faculty/r-bin-wong

TA: Kevin Powers Tenggario, 19110680049@fudan.edu.cn

Teaching Schedule:

08:00-10:40 Monday 12^th April

08:00-10:40 Tuesday 13^th April

08:00-10:40 Wednesday 14^th April

08:00-10:40 Monday 19^th April

08:00-10:40 Tuesday 20^th April

08:00-10:40 Wednesday 21^st April

Classroom: online via Zoom

Instructor's bio：

R. Bin Wong is Distinguished Professor of History and was Director of the Asia Institute at UCLA from 2004 through 2016. His research has examined Chinese patterns of political, economic and social change both within Asian regional contexts and compared with more familiar European patterns, as part of the larger scholarly efforts underway to make world history speak to contemporary conditions of globalization.

He is author or editor of several books, including China Transformed: Historical Change and the Limits of European Experience (1997) and Before and Beyond Divergence: The Politics of Economic Change in China and Europe (2011), along with more than ninety articles published in North America, East Asia and Europe. Since 2009 he has been a Distinguished Guest Professor at the Fudan University Institute for Advanced Study in Social Sciences. He also serves on the International Advisory Board of the Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes and on the Berggruen Institute on Philosophy and Culture Academic Board.

2. Why Did Industrial Revolution Not Happen in China First? （经济学讲座16，ECON830073）

Instructor: Debin Ma, Economic History Department, London School of Economics

http://personal.lse.ac.uk/mad1/

TA: Jiacheng Zhang, 20110680014@fudan.edu.cn

Teaching Schedule:

16:20-17:50 Wednesday 31^st March

18:30-20:45 Thursday 1^st April

16:20-17:50 Tuesday 6^th April

16:20-17:50 Wednesday 7^th April

18:30-20:45 Thursday 8^th April

16:20-17:50 Friday 9^th April

16:20-17:50 Monday 12^th April

16:20-17:50 Tuesday 13^th April

Classroom: online via Zoom

Instructor's Bio:

Debin Ma is Professor of Economics at the Institute of Economic Research at Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo Japan. He is also Visiting Professor at the Department of Economic History at London School of Economics and research associate with CEPR. He obtained his PhD in Economics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and had taught in the United States, UK, Japan and China. His research interest includes (1) long-term economic growth in East Asia; (2) international comparison of living standards, human capital and productivity; (3) institutions, legal traditions, long-run growth and global history; and (4) economics of the silk sector. With Loren Brandt and Thomas G. Rawski and published a journal paper ‘From Divergence to Convergence: Re-evaluating the History behind China's Economic Boom’ on the Journal of Economic Literature. He is also the co-editor of the forthcoming two volume Cambridge Economic History of China.