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🎉 We've officially kicked off our annual #QuantitativeHistory summer school #QHSS2025 at 山东大学 SHANDONG UNIVERSITY today with opening remarks from our director, #ZhiwuChen. Our Centre Fellows and Co-PIs, #YingBai The Chinese University of Hong Kong - CUHK and #ZhanLin @RenminUniversity, are now sharing their research

Day 2 of our #QuantitativeHistory Summer School #QHSS2025 wraps up with forefront research. #DenggaoLong from Tsinghua University presents his new findings on #landreform #censusdata in his first lecture and discusses the credit rating system for Qing officials in his second. Sijie Hu

We're now in the final lecture of Day 3 at our #QuantitativeHistory Summer School #QHSS2025! Our director and associate director kicked off their three-part series with #ZhiwuChen exploring how humanity has historically responded to risk, followed by Chicheng Ma’s examination of

👩‍💻🧑‍💻 Updates from Day 4 of our #QuantitativeHistory Summer School #QHSS2025 | #ZhiwuChen wraps up his series with a final lecture on how quantitative methods apply to long historical research, focusing on #war and the origins of Chinese #civilisation. #ShujiCao shares his

Entering Day 5 of our #QuantitativeHistory Summer School #QHSS2025! Yuda Yang Fudan University presents his first lecture on the progress of research regarding long-term #climatechange in historical China, followed by a second lecture on systematic biases in historical data and

Day 6 of our #QuantitativeHistory Summer School #QHSS2025 is underway! Today features Yuhua Wang from Harvard University presenting his latest #workingpaper, "The Written Word and the Development of the State in China and Europe," alongside our Centre collaborator #KaixiangPeng from

Our director #ZhiwuChen is giving an opening remarks for our #quanthistorysymposium at Longfor Leadership Center in #Yantai HKU Business School Centre for Quantitative History HKIHSS 香港人文社會研究所 The University of Hong Kong RenminUniversity

Thrilled for the first keynote speech by Min Ma from Central China Normal University on "Research Approaches in Historical Studies in the Era of #DigitalHistory"! He shared insights on the challenges of database construction, as well as the connections between digital methods and

Currently enjoying the second keynote speech by Yuhua Wang from Harvard University on his latest work, *Maintaining Empire: The Examination System and Secessionist Conflict in Imperial China,” coauthored with Gary W. Cox and #MarkDincecco! Their research tackles the key question: Why did

☘️ We’re currently engaged in the 3rd keynote at the international #quanthistorysymposium by our own #YingBai on “Knowledge Suppression and Resilience under Censorship: Three-Century Book Publications in China,” coauthored with Ruixue Jia UC San Diego and Jiaojiao Yang The Chinese University of Hong Kong - CUHK

Now having the final keynote of Day 1 of our symposium on #QH, following our tradition, delivered by our summer school host Guoxi Dai from 山东大学 SHANDONG UNIVERSITY on “The Measurement System for Grains and the Quantity of Residents’ Grain Ration in the Qin and Han Dynasties.” Guoxi Dai

Thank you to Fen Wang from 山东大学 SHANDONG UNIVERSITY for her generous sharing on her decades of research in statistical #archaeology at our International Symposium on #QuantitativeHistory dinner keynote session! She covered the latest developments, challenges the field faces with #AI, and the

We just listened to the first keynote speech of Day 2 of the International Symposium on #QuantitativeHistory by Jianye Han from RenminUniversity on "Early Urban Construction Projects in China and the Formation of Early States." He explored the formation of early cities by estimating

We’re currently listening today’s 2nd keynote speech by our collaborator #KaixiangPeng from Wuhan University on “The Evolution of Chinese Longevity over the Last Ten Thousand Years.” This RGC-funded project, coauthored with our director #ZhiwuChen, Fellow #ZhanLin, and Xiaoming Zhang

Just enjoyed the 3rd keynote by Yuda Yang from Fudan University on "Silver Production in Southwest China during the Ming Dynasty." Yuda's research team is developing methods to accurately reconstruct historical silver production by exploring historical documents and modern

We’re now hearing the final keynote of the International Symposium on #QH from our very own #ZhiwuChen and co-authors Senhao Hu HKIHSS 香港人文社會研究所 and Yuchen Wei HKU Business School on "Survival of the Strongest: How Iron Technology Led to the Founding of the First Chinese Empire in 221 BCE." Their

No words can express the joy we felt during Shuji Cao Laoshi's dinner keynote tonight. Thank you for the laughter and the wonderful jokes! Also, thank you to Chicheng Ma for being our MC. #QHSS2025 #QH #QuantHistorySymposium Centre for Quantitative History

Thrilled to see the discussion paper on “The Great Divergence and Convergence of Stature in Eurasia: Trends and Economic Correlates over the Last Eight Millennia,” by Jörg Baten Universität Tübingen et al. now available online from CEPR! A big thank you to all the co-authors, including