Professor Moazzin, Ghassan
Professor Moazzin, Ghassan
Ghassan Moazzin is Assistant Professor at the Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences and the Department of History. He was educated at the University of Cambridge, where he received both his B.A. (2012) and Ph.D. (2017). Before coming to Hong Kong, he was a JSPS International Research Fellow at the Graduate School of Economics of the University of Tokyo. He has also been a visiting scholar at East China Normal University in Shanghai and the Institute of Modern History at Academia Sinica in Taipei. His doctoral dissertation won both the Coleman Prize of the Association of Business Historians and the Herman E. Krooss Prize of the Business History Conference. It was also a finalist for the Dissertation Prize (Category: The Long 19th Century) of the World Economic History Congress 2018.
Moazzin’s research deals with the economic and business history of modern China and the global history of capitalism. He has previously worked on the history of foreign banks, international finance and economic globalisation in late 19th and early 20th century China. His research has been published in Cross-Currents, Modern Asian Studies and Business History Review. His first monograph, Foreign Banks and Global Finance in Modern China: Banking on the Chinese Frontier, 1870 – 1919, was recently published by Cambridge University Press. In 2023, the book was a finalist for the Hagley Prize in Business History. His new research project deals with the history of the electrical and electronics industries in modern China.
| Year | Awarding Institution | Qualification |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | The University of Cambridge | B.A. |
| 2017 | The University of Cambridge | Ph.D. |
| Awardees | Award Date | Honours / Awards / Prizes | Category |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-09-15 | Elected to the Fellowship of the Royal Historical Society | Research Achievement | |
| 2023-03-01 | Finalist, Hagley Book Prize in Business History (2023) [for my book Foreign Banks and Global Finance in Modern China: Banking on the Chinese Frontier, 1870-1919]: Business History Conference | Research Achievement | |
| 2018-06-01 | Coleman Prize For The Best Dissertation In Business History: Association Of Business Historians, United Kingdom | Research Achievement | |
| 2019-03-01 | Hermann E. Krooss Prize For The Best Dissertation In Business History: Business History Conference, United States | Research Achievement | |
| 2024-03-16 | Honorable Mention, Ralph Gomory Prize (2024) [for the book Foreign Banks and Global Finance in Modern China: Banking on the Chinese Frontier, 1870-1919] | Research Achievement | |
| 2024-04-06 | Co-Winner, First Monograph Prize in Economic and/or Social History, Economic History Society [for the book Foreign Banks and Global Finance in Modern China: Banking on the Chinese Frontier, 1870-1919] | Research Achievement | |
| 2025-01-21 | Faculty Research Award for Junior Tenure-track Professoriate Staff (for cumulative research activity over a 3-year period) | Research Achievement |
| Term Period | Position | Professional Societies |
|---|---|---|
| 2014 - present | Member | Association for Asian Studies |
| 2018 - present | Member | Association of Business Historians |
| 2019 - present | Member | Business History Conference |
| 2023 - present | Fellow | Royal Historical Society |
| Area of Expertise (EN) | Area of Expertise (ZH) |
|---|---|
| Modern Chinese History | 中國近現代史 |
| History of Global Capitalism | 全球資本主義史 |
| Chinese Financial History | 中國金融史 |
| Business and Economic History | 企業史及經濟史 |
| Spoken Language(s) (EN) | Spoken Language(s) (ZH) |
|---|---|
| Putonghua | 普通話 |
| German | 德語 |
| English | 英語 |
| Written Language(s) (EN) | Written Language(s) (ZH) |
|---|---|
| German | 德文 |
| English | 英文 |
| Chinese | 中文 |
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