Dear all,

Happy new year and welcome back to the History and Theory of Capitalism Workshop! We have an exciting and busy schedule ahead of us this winter, which you may review here.

Please join us for our first session of the quarter. We are welcoming Professor Melanie Meng Xue (Assistant Professor of Economic History, London School of Economics), who will present a paper she co-wrote with Xizi Luo (Economic History, London School of Economics). The paper is titled  “Enlightenment under Autocracy: The Origins of Liberalism in China” and you may access it here with the password china1.

Professor Xue’s presentation will take place this Wednesday, January 8th from 4:30PM – 6PM at the John Hope Franklin Room (SSRB 224). Professor Kenneth Pomeranz (History, University of Chicago) has kindly agreed to serve as the discussant. As always, light refreshments will be served and a Zoom link will be available upon request.

This is Portrait of Wang Yangming (1472-1529), anonymous, Qing dynasty.

Please reach out if you have any questions or requests.

Thanks and see you Wednesday,

Ada and Xiaoyu