Ziang Liu
About Me:
I work on Chinese and global socioeconomic history. My research covers state-building, labour history, and long-run living standards in global history between the 15th and the 20th centuries.
Fields: Chinese Economy in the Long Run; Global Economic History
Labour Market, Wages, and Long Run Living Standard
Institution, Public Finance, and State Governance
Calculative Practices & Social Studies of Quantification
Associate Fellow, The Royal Historical Society
2024/25 - Lecturer in Modern Economic History
(King's College London)
2023/24 - Postdoctoral Research Fellow
(University of Hong Kong)
2022/23 - UK Economic and Social Research Council Early Career Fellow
(London School of Economics)
2022 - Alexander von Humboldt Visiting Fellow
(Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg)
Contact: ziang.liu@kcl.ac.uk
Recent work
"Wages, labour markets, and living standards in China, 1530-1840"
Explorations in Economic History 92 (2024): 101569.
"与人口赛跑：重视前现代中国与英国人口与生产力的长期趋势"
(Racing with population: Revisiting the long run population and productivity in early modern China and England)
Sijie Hu & Ziang Liu. conditionally accepted by Qing History Journal 清史研究
"Secular decline in modern China? Wage evidence from hydraulic constructions and rural casual work in Suzhou and Shanghai"
(working paper)
"Farewell to Old China: Taxable Land, Data Manipulation, and Agricultural Taxation in Northwestern Shanxi across the Imperial, Republican and Communist China"
(working paper, with Chunying Wang and Shuji Cao)
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Measuring Early Modern and Modern Chinese Economy: Data, Method, and Limit
(co-editor, book collection, under contract with Palgrave Macmillan)
Selected Media Commentaries
China must avoid Europe’s mistakes and stand up against rising extremism
South China Morning Post (香港南華早報)
China’s plan to unify its domestic market will create cohesion, but at the expense of local needs
South China Morning Post (香港南華早報)
Amid transatlantic tension, the EU has reason to reshape its relationship with China
South China Morning Post (香港南華早報)
英国可以脱欧但难以离开欧洲
新加坡联合早报 (Lianhe Zaobao)
中澳贸易冲突难解
新加坡联合早报 (Lianhe Zaobao)