Wang Yuru

Faculty

Full Time Faculty

Yuru Wang

Data of Birth: 24 September 1954

Degrees:BA. in Economics; MA. in Economics; Ph.D. in Economics.

Present Position:
Professor in Chinese Economic History at Institute of Economics.
Director of Economic History Research Center of Nankai University.

Address:No.94 Weijin Road, Tianjin, 300071 China.

Previous Positions

1982~1985: Assistant in Department of Law and Politics, Tianjin University of Commerce.
1888~1993: Lecturer in Institute of Economics, Nankai University.
1993~1997: Associate professor in Institute of Economics, Nankai University.
1998~present: Professor in Institute of Economics and Center for Japanese Studies, Nankai University.
2005~: Director of Economic History Research Center of Nankai University.

Researching-abroad

Oct.1989~Mar.1990: Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture, Japan.
Apr.1990~Mar.1991: Institute of Social Sciences, Waseda University, Japan.
Oct.1997~Sep.1998: The Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University, Japan.
Oct.2002~Mar. 2003: Department of Economics Waseda University, Japan.
Aug 2006: The University of Shdffield, London School of Economics and Political Science, University of Bristol etc., funded by The Universities’ China Committee in London, United Kingdom.

Tertiary Education

Sept. 1981~July, 1985	Dept. of Maths, Yunnan University; Bachelor of Science
1978~1982: Undergraduate in Political Economy at Department of Economics, Nankai University.
1985~1988: MA. Student in Chinese Economic History at Institute of Economics, Nankai University.
1991~1994: Ph.D. Student in Chinese Economic History at Institute of Economics, Nankai University.

Awards and Honors

The first grade, The Outstanding MA. Degree Thesis of Nankai University, 1988.
Guanghua Foundation Scholarship, Nankai University, 1992 and 1993.
The Best Youth Award of The Fifth Tianjin Excellent Achievement Awards in Social Sciences for “Dual Structure and Economic Growth: A Comparative Study on the Modernization of Japan and China, 1880s~1930s”, 1993.
The Excellent Youth Research Works Award of Economics and Management of Nankai University, 1994.
The Third Award of The Second University of Ministry of Education Excellent Achievement Awards in Social Sciences for “The Change in Relative Price of Production Factor and Economic Development in Modern China” 1999.
The Third Award of the Seventh Tianjin Excellent Achievement Awards in Social Sciences for “Studies On the Price Structure In Modern China”, 1999.
The Third Award of the Ninth Tianjin Excellent Achievement Awards in Social Sciences for “The Institutional Evolution And Industrialization In Modern China”, 2003.
The Secdend Award of the Tenth Tianjin Excellent Achievement Awards in Social Sciences for “Economic Growth and the Medium-long Cycles in Modern China”, 2006.
The Third Award of the Eleventh Tianjin Excellent Achievement Awards in Social Sciences for “Urban Wholesale Price Change and Economic Growth in Modern China”,2008.

Professional Activities

 
Member of Council of the Chinese Economic History Association.
Menber of  Discipline appraisal group (Economic group) of Tianjin Government Degree Committee. Menber of  Discipline appraisal group (Economic group) of Tianjin.
Member of a council of Tianjin  Overseas  Returned  Scholars Association (Western Returned Scholars Association Tianjin Branch)
Member of the Economics Association of Tianjin.
Member of the Japanese Economics Association of Tianjin.

Research Progress

1988~1991: The Government Social Sciences Fund: Economic Development of Modern China (joint research with Liu Foding and Yu Jianwei).
1992~1994: Funded by The Research Association of Traditional Chinese Culture: one of the General Annals of Chinese Culture: Annals of Industrial and Commercial Institutions (joint research with Liu Foding and others).
1993~1995: Funded by Japanese Ministry of Culture and Education: Cooperative research between Nankai University and Nagoya Gakuin University: A Study on the System of Multiple Academic Subjects Information of China.
1993~1995: Doctoral Fund of the Government Education Committee’s: A Study on the Semi-feudal and Semi-Colonial Domestic Market of China (joint research with Liu Foding).
1994~1995: The Government of Tianjin Fund: The Social Assessment System for Clean Government (one of the members of the research group).
1994~1996: The Object Research Fund of Nankai University: The Institutional Evolution in Chinese Modernization.
1996~1998: The Government Social Sciences Fund: The Institutional Evolution and Industrialization in Modern China (joint research with Liu Foding).
1997~1998: China Scholarship: A Comparative Study on the Modern Institutional Evolution of China and Japan.
1997~2000: Funded by Chinese Management Association: Chinese Enterprises History, Modern Part (joint research with Wu Chengming and others).
1998~2000: Funded by Japanese Ministry of Culture and Education: Asian Historical Statistics Project (joint research with Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University, Japan).
1999~2000: Reikei Foundation: A Comparative Studies on The Modern Company Institution Changing of Japan and China.
2000~2001: The Sumitomo Foundation: A Comparative Studies on the Institution Change of Stock Company Between China and Japan, 1880s-1930s.
2001-2004: The Government Social Sciences Fund: Modern Chinese Industry Structure Changing Affected by the Prices Changing in the World Market. 
2003-2007: Doctoral Fund of the Government Education Ministry: A Study of Price, Wages and living Standards Change in Modern China.
2008-2015: The national history of the Qing Dynasty compiles the project: Records annals •Commercial annals.
2011-2018Fund of Philosophy and social sciences key research projects by the Government Education Ministry (Marxist theoretical research and construction, special on the textbook): Economic History of China.
2016-2021 Major Projects of the National Philosophy and Social Science Foundation: The sorting of modern Chinese economic index and database construction.

Major Publication

Books
1.Market Development And Economic Growth In Modern China  (with Liu Foding), High Education Press, Beijing, 1996.
2.Economic Development On Modern China (with Liu Foding and Yu Jianwei), Shandong Peoples Press, Jinan, 1997.
3.Studies On the Price Structure In Modern China (Ph.D. Dissertation), Shanxi Peoples Press, Xian, 1997.
4.Annuals Of Industrial And Commercial Institutions (with Liu Foding and others), Shanghai Peoples Press, Shanghai, 1998.
5.Economic Development History Of Modern China (the vice chief editor), High Education Press, Beijing, 1999.
6.The Institutional Evolution And Industrialization In Modern China (joint with Liu Foding), Shanxi Peoples Press, Xian, 2000.
7.Growth, development and Change, China Logistics Publishing House, Beijing, 2004.
8.The Forming History of Modern Economy in Eastern Asian (the editor), Peoples Press, Beijing, 2005.
9.The History Structure of Modern Economy in Eastern Asian (the Chinese version chief Chinese version chief editor), Peoples Press, Beijing, 2007.
10. Modern Chinese Industry Structure Changing Affected by the Prices Changing in the World Market, Peoples Press, Beijing, 2007.
11. A Study of Price, Wages and living Standards Change in Modern China, Shanghai University of Finance & economics Press, Shanghai, 2007.
12. Economic History of China (Chief Editor), High Education Press, Beijing, 2008.
Journal Articles:
1.Scientific Conclusions on the Historic Development of Chinese Capitalism — Comment on    Wu Chengming’s Chinese Capitalism And The Domestic Market, Nankai Institute of Economics Quarterly, No.2, 1986.
2.Contribution to the Study on the Old Chinese Economy by A Group of Scholars in Economic Institute of Nankai University, Nankai Institute of Economic Quarterly, No.1, 1997.
3.Economic Development in China Between the Two World Wars, 1920-1936, Research In Chinese Economic History (Quarterly), No.2, 1987. In the one of collection of Macmillan’s Studies on the Chinese Economy, Edited by Tim Wright, The Chinese Economy In The Early Twentieth Century: Recent Chinese Studies, The Macmillan Press LTD, Great Britain, 1992.
4.On the Adjustment of Salt Taxes and Salt Prices Based on Salt Production and Sales in the Zigong Salt Area, Nankai Institute of Economics Quarterly, No.1, 1988.
5.The Development of Household-Jointly-Run Factories in Gaoyang County (joint article with Liu Foding), Nankai Institute of Economics Quarterly, No.4, 1988.
6.Capital Formation and Changing Trend in Level of the Profit of The Kailuan Mining Administration, 1903~1937, Research In Modern History (Bimonthly), No.4, 1989.
7.Survey of the Distribution of National Income in Modern China, Research In Chinese Economic History (Quarterly), No.4, 1994.
8.Dual Structure and Economic Growth: A Comparative Study on the Modernization of Japan and China, 1880s~1930s, The Social Sciences Review, No.3, Vol.36, March 1991, Waseda University Press, Japan.
9.A Comparative Study of Japanese and Chinese Agricultural Development During the Process of Modernization, Nankai Economic Studies (Bimonthly), No.2, 1992.
10.An Analysis of Operating Profits of the Kailuan Mining Administration, 1903~1937, Research In Chinese Economic History (Quarterly), No.4, 1993.
11.Capital Formation and Operating Profits of the Kailuan Mining Administration, 1903~1937, Modern Asian Studies, Vol.8, Part I, February 1994, Cambridge University Press, Great Britain.
12.A Study on the Price of the Productive Factors Market in Modern China, Research In Chinese Economic History (Quarterly), No.4, 1994.
13.Dream and Setback of Internationalism Between the Two World Wars: A Study on the China Institution of Pacific Relations, Collection of Abstracts XVIII Pacific Science Congress, June 1995, Beijing, China.
14.Change in Relative Prices in Productive Factor Markets in Modern China, Research In Chinese Economic History (Quarterly), No.2, 1995.
15.Economic Growth And Cycles In Modern China (joint article with Liu Foding and Yu Jianwei), Nankai Economic Studies (Oversea Edition) Vol.1, No.III/IV, September/December 1994.
16.Chinese Economy in the Early 1930s — Comment on the American Scholars’ Discussion About the Influence of American Silver Policy on the Chinese Economy (joint article with Liu Liu Foding and Wang Lihua), Nankai Economic Studies (Bimonthly), No.2, 1995.
17.Studies on the Secular Trends of General Prices Level in Modern China, Research In Chinese Economic History (Quarterly), No.2, 1996.
18.The Different Outcomes of Traditional Industries in the Course of Economic Modernization Between China and Japan, Nankai Economic Studies (Bimonthly), No.2, 1996.
19.Recent Studies and Prospect on the Income of Modern China, Discussion Paper of Asian Historical Statistics Project, No.D96-14, Feb.1997, Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University, Japan. Journal Of Tianjin University Of Commerce, No.2, 1998.
20.A Study on the Process of Chinese Foreign Trade towards Market, Research on Economics and Management (Bimonthly), No.1, 1998.  Zhejiang Social Sciences (Bimonthly), No2, 1999.
21.Survey on the Prices Statistic of Modern China, Discussion Paper of Asian Historical Statistics Project, No.97-13, March 1998, Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University, Japan.
22.The Main Price Index Drawing Up of Modern China: The Explaining for the Conclusion and Method, paper for the Workshop of Economy in the Republic China: Statistic and Analysis, September 1999, Hitotsubashi University, Japan.
23.Establishment of Factory System and Feature of Property Right in Modern China, Journal of Xidian University (Social Sciences Edition) No. 4, 1999.
24.The Feature of the Government Behavior of Modern China and Its Impact on the Industrialization – Some Thinking of Some Theoretical Issues on Institutional Transition of China during Modern Times, Nankai Economic Studies (Bimonthly), No.1, 2000.
25.Main Price Index Establishment of Modern China: Explanation on the Result and Method, Economic Statistics in the Period of Republic of China: Appraisal and Estimate Collection of International Workshop, Project of Asian History Statistics of Hitotsubashi University, Feb. 2000, Japan.
26.Market Organization and Transaction Cost in Modern China, Modern Chinese History Journal, Vol.1, Huazhong Normal University Press, Mar. 2000.
27.Thinking about the Creation of Theory and Method of Economic History, Nankai Economic Studies (Bimonthly) No.3, 2001.
28.World Market Expansion and Chinese Market System Changing, Journal of Chinese Social and Economic History, No.2, 2002.
29.Economic Growth and Change of Industry Structural of China from 1920s to the 1930s, Modern East Asian History, Vol.5 Mar. 2002.
30.Economic Growth and Structural Change in Modern China, The XIII International Economic History Association Congress, Buenos Aires, 22-26 July 2002, Pressed by Universidad de SanAndres, 2002.
31.The New Trend of Economic History in the New Century, Research In Chinese Economic History (Quarterly), No.4, 2002.
32.Comaprative Study on Modern Towns Between South of Yangzi River and North China (with Guo Jinchao), Jiangsu Social Sciences, No.6, 2003.
33.A Comparative Study on the System Environment of Joint-stock Company System Change, Deited by Zhang Zhongmin & Lu Xinglong, Institutional Change in Chinese Business History, Shanghai Academy of Social Science Press, Aug. 2003.
34.The Urban Wholesale Price Change and Economic Growth in Modern China, Regional Studies, Vol.31, No.2, The Institute for Regional Studies, the International University of Kagoshima, Japan, Mar. 2004.
35.Economic Growth and the Medium-long Cycles in Modern China, China Economic Quarterly, Vol.4, No.2, Peking University Press, January 2005.
36.Chinese Economic Research on the Period between Both Great Wars from 1990s in China, Regional Studies, Vol.32, No.2, The Institute for Regional Studies, the International University of Kagoshima, Japan, March 2005,
37.The Analysis of the Family Scale in Modern China, Edited by Zhang Donggang Etc., The Chinese Economy Within the Global Economic Framework, China Financial & Economic Publishing House, Beijing, August 2005.
38.An Information Carrier under Week Government Shanghai Merchant Silk Association, (with Zhang Wei) Journal of Finance and Economics, Vol.32 No.6, Jun. 2006
39.Urban Wholesale Price Change and Economic Growth in Modern China, Shanxi University Journal (Philosophy & Social Science), Vol.29 No.5, Sept. 2006.
40.Satae Act and Historical Change of Ecoenvironment in Northwest China (with Yang Hongwei), Chinese Social History Review, Vol. VII, Tianjin Guji Press, Oct. 2006.
41.Impacts of Modern China’s Grain Logistics on Grain Safety: The Case in the Middle and Lower Reaches of Yangtze River in 1920s & 1930s (with Ren Xinping) Journal of Finance and Economics, Vol.33 No.3, Mar. 2007.
42.Economic History and Economic Theory, Academic Monthly, Serial No.452, January 2007.
43.Silver Outflow and Modern China Currency Financial System Change (with Yan Hongzhong), Wen Rui edited, Government, Market and Economic Change, Jiangxi People’s Press, Nov. 2007
44.An Analysis on the Consumption Structure of Chinese Farmers in 1920s-1930’s (with Li Jinxia), Researches in Chinese Economic History Quarterly, No.4 2007.
45.An Analysis on the Farmers Living Standards in Modern China (with Li Jinxia), Nankai Economic Studies, No.1 2008.
46.Circulation Market Graduation and Relational Network Construction：A Study on Shanghai Silk Fabrics Merchant Organization, 1900s-1930s, Zhang Zhongmin etc. edited, Social Environment and Enterprise Development, Shanghai Academy of Social Science Press, Mar. 2008.
47. Trend analysis on Change of Rural Price Index in Modern China, Journal of Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, No.3,2008.
48.The Development of the New Style Banking Industry in the Modern History in China (with Yan Hongzhong & Fu Hong), Journal of Financial Research, September 2009 (No.351).
49.The latest Development in Research on International Economic History (with Zhao Jinsong), Journal of Shandong University (Philosophy and Social Sciences Edition), No.2, 2010.
50.Kindship and the Organization From of Modern Corporation: The Interpretation Framework of Transaction Cost, Journal of Shanxi University (Philosophy and Social Sciences Edition), No.5, 2010.
51.Economic Development and the Evolution of Banking Structure in Modern China: An Empirical Analysis Based on Market Concentration from 1918 to 1936, Journal of Finance and Economics, No.6, 2011.
52.A Preliminary Discussion on the PPP Applications in Chinese Economic History Studies (with Wang Zhe), Researches in Chinese Economic History, No.3, 2011.
53.Investment Climate and Corporate Social Accountability: Reflection on Limited Liability Company (with Zhao Jinsong), Journal of Shandong University (Philosophy and Social Sciences Edition), No.1, 2013.
54.Authenticity of the Grain Price Data of the Qing Yangtze Basin (with Luo Chang), The Qing History Journal, No.1, 2013.
55.A Preliminary analysis on domestic exchange market in modern china (with Ma Jianhua), Modern Chinese History Studies, No.6, 2013.
56.A preliminary study on the domestic exchange market in modern China (with Ma Jianhua), Research In Modern History (Bimonthly), No.6, 2013.
57.The process and data nature of grain price reporting in qing Dynasty (with Lv Changquan), Research In Modern History (Bimonthly), No.1, 2017.
58.Diversification of theoretical methods and re-start of economic history research in qing Dynasty, The Qing History Journal，No.6, 2020.
59.Stakeholder Participation and Effective Port Management -- Based on the Study of Greenock Port Authority (1773-1965)（with Liu Mengjun），Nankai Economic Studies (Bimonthly) No.2, 2021.
60.Waterway Governance and Port Trade Development (1759-1965) -- Study on the Clyde Waterway Governance Institutions（with Liu Mengjun），Nankai Journal (Philosophy and Social Sciences Edition) No.4, 2021.
Translations
1.A Rough Estimate of the Annual Gross National Product in the 1880s (joint with Zhao Jin), translation from Chun-li Chang’s The Income Of The Chinese Gentry, Nankai Institute of Economics Quarterly, Supplement 1997.
2.The Main Problems in Chinese Economic History in the 1980s, translation from Tim Wright edited, The Chinese Economic In The Early Twentieth Century: Recent Chinese Studies, The Macmillan Press LTD, Great Britain, 1992, Nankai Economic Studies (Bimonthly), No.6, 1992.
3.Modern Chinese Economic History in a Changing Period, translation from Tim Wright edited, The Chinese Economic In The Early Twentieth Century: Recent Chinese Studies, The Macmillan Press LTD, Great Britain, 1992, Modern China, Vol.3, 1993.
4.The Power of Economic Thinking, Shanghai University of Finance & economics Press, Shanghai, 2005.
5.A Chinese Economic Revolution: Rural Extrepreneurship in the Twentieth Century, Jiangsu Peoples Publishing House, 2009. 
6.China，East Asia and Global Economy： Regional and historical perspectives，Social Sciences Academic Press，2009.
7.Tigers, Rice, Silk, and Silt: Environment and Economy in Late Imperial South China，Jiangsu Peoples Publishing House, 2011.