Faculty and Staff

TEACHING AND RESEARCH AREAS

Teaching Programme : economic history

Teaching Focusing : quantitative economic history

Research Areas : economic history, development economics, institutional economics

ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE

2015-, committee member of Symposium on Quantitative History

2011-, Editorial board member of Researches In Chinese Economic History

INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCE

MANAGERAL AND PRACTICAL EXPERIENCE

CONSULTING AND TRAINING EXPERIENCE (GOVERNMENT OR CORPORATE)

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Journal Papers (International)

Peng, Kaixiang and Liangping Shen. “The evolution of commercial finance in Ming-Qing China: 16th to Early-20th Centuries”. Historia Crítica n.° 89 (2023): 209-230, doi: https://doi.org/10.7440/histcrit89.2023.08.

Baomin Dong, Kaixiang Peng, Jianguo Sun, “Financing China’s cotton textile industry: 1890–1936”, Journal of Asian Economics 79 (2022).

Debin Ma, Kaixiang Peng, “’Involution’ or Seasonality: A New Perspective on the 19-20th Century Chinese Agricultural Development”, 経済研究Economic Review, Vol. 72, No. 4, pp. 334-348 (2021.10).

Zhiwu Chen, Kaixiang Peng, Lijun Zhu, “Social-economic change and its impact on violence: Homicide history of Qing China”, Explorations in Economic History 63 (2017) 8–25.

Journal Papers (Domestic)

Peng Kaixiang and Zhao Shidi, “‘The Lifeblood of the World’ and ‘The Decentralization of Economic Power’——The Shaping of Economic Organizations by the Shift ofEconomic Space in the Ming and Qing Dynasties”, Journal of Peking University (Philosophy and Social Sciences Edition), Volume 6, 2024.

Peng Kaixiang, “One Public Borrowing in the 15th Year of Chongzhen Emperor's Reign: A Disscussion on the Flow of Silver and Military Finance in the Late Ming Dynasty”, Chinese Economic History Review, Volume 4, 2024.

Peng Kaixiang and Chen Tiantian, “Gender and Identity in Late Qing Agricultural workers in Huizhou: A Study Based on the Accounts of the Wang Family in Yi County”, Regional History Studies, Volume 9, December 2023, Social Sciences Academic Press.

Peng Kaixiang, Chen Zhiwu, and Yuan Weipeng, “Commercial Interest Rates in China from the 17th to the early 20th Century: A Study Based on the Evolution of Financial Organizations”, Financial Research, Volume 6, 2023.

Lin Zhan and Peng Kaixiang, “Risk Aversion, Transaction Costs, and the Choice of Lease Contracts: An Analysis Based on Surveys by the South Manchuria Railway Company”, Chinese Economic History Review, Volume 6, 2022.

Kaixiang Peng, “The State in the Economic History of Ming-Qing China: A Conversational Review”, Researches In Chinese Economic History, 2021, No.2.

Kaixiang Peng and Zhan Lin, “Amending the central regulations (Li) and the governance of the Qing Dynasty: an analysis mainly based on Da Qing Lü Li and Huidian Shili”, The Qing History Journal, 2020, No.6.

Kaixiang Peng, “Monetization and monetary diversification: polyphony triggered by silver in monetary history in Ming and Qing dynasties”, Researches in Chinese Economic History, 2019, No.6.

Kaixiang Peng, “Grain production and development under the growth of population: A discussion from Shi Zhihong's estimation about the agriculture production in Qing dynasty”, Researches in Chinese Economic History, 2015, No.7.

Zhiwu Chen, Zhan Lin and Kaixiang Peng, “Violent Conflicts in Private Lending: A Research Based on Qing Dynasty's Homicide Report”, Economic Research Journal, 2014, No.9.

Cases and Practical Papers

Conference Papers (International)

Textbooks

Monography and Chapter

Kaixiang Peng, From Dealings to the Market: a discussion on Private Economy of Traditional China, Hangzhou, Zhejiang University Press, 2015.

Kaixiang Peng, Grain Prices since Qing dynasty: historical interpretation and re-interpretation, Shanghai People's Publishing House, 2006.

Zhiwu Chen, Peng Kaixiang, “Chapter 18: Production, Consumption, and Living Standards”, in Cambridge Economic History of China, Vol. 1, Cambridge (2022/2).

Debin Ma, Peng Kaixiang, “Chapter 3: Agriculture”, in Cambridge Economic History of China, Vol. 2, Cambridge (2022/2).

Peng Kaixiang, “Money supply and the price mechanism: the interaction of money, prices and wages in Beijing in the long nineteenth century”, in A History of Market Performance: From Ancient Babylonia to the Modern World, Routledge, 2015/3.

Others

RESEARCH GRANTS

Government-funded grants

Corporate-funded grants

International collaborative grants

AWARDS AND HONORS

EDITORIAL BOARDS

Editorial board member of Researches In Chinese Economic History

MEMBERSHIPS, CERTIFICATIONS

INVITED SPEECH AND MEDIA COVERAGE