Guan Yongqiang

Faculty

Full Time Faculty

GUAN Yongqiang

Institute of Economics

Job Title:Professor

Research Areas:
Economic History

EMAIL:yqguan@nankai.edu.cn

Education

2009.6, Nankai University, Ph.D. in Economic History (Supervisor: Professor Donggang Zhang)
2000.6, Nankai University, B.A. in International Economics

Professional Experience

2021.12- , Professor, Economic History, Institute of Economics, Nankai University
2015.12-2021.12, Associate Professor, Economic History, Institute of Economics, Nankai University
2019.8-2020.7, Fulbright Visiting Scholar, Global Affairs Program, George Mason University (Host Professor: Johanna K. Bockman)
2009.7-2015.12, Assistant Professor, Economic History, Institute of Economics, Nankai University
2007.9-2008.9, Visiting Study (Sponsored by China Scholarship Council Fellowship), Department of History, UC Irvine (Host Professor: Kenneth L. Pomeranz)

Courses Taught

Undergraduate Courses: Chinese Economic History: From Early Human Settlement to 1949, History of Financial thoughts, Principles of Economics, 
Graduate Courses: Theories and Methods in Economic History, Chinese Economic History, Financial History, Selected Readings in Modern Chinese Economic History

Major Publications (in Chinese)

BOOK：
Income Distribution in Modern China: A Quantitative Study, Beijing: People’s Publishing House, 2012.
JOURNAL ARTICLES:
Wage and Cost of Living Indexes during the Republic of China: A Comprehensive and Critical Review (Co-authored with Yunchen Wu), Journal of Chinese Social and Economic History, vol.1, 2022, pp.61-71.
The Competition among Marxism, Substantivism, and Neoliberalism: Two Major Debates on Modern Chinese Rural Economy in American Academia (Co-authored with Yumiao Niu),  Study & Exploration, vol.11, 2021, pp. 144-153.
An Inquiry into the Industrial Production Indexes of the Republican Period of China, Researches in Chinese Economic History, vol.5, 2021, pp.156-167.
The Evolution of Central Statistical Organization and the Development of Modern Chinese Official Statistics (Co-authored with Xueying Zhao), Nankai Economic Studies, vol.4, 2021, pp.63-75.
Price Indexes in Modern China: A Comprehensive and Critical Review (1894-1949) (Co-authored with Yunchen Wu), Researches in Chinese Economic History, vol.4, 2020, pp.162-171.
“Smithian Growth”: Reevaluating Rural Industry in the Modernization of China (Co-authored with Donggang Zhang), Historical Research, vol.2, 2017, pp.153-167.
Reexamination of China’s National Income in 1933: Analysis of the Estimation Differences between Wu Bao-San and Liu Da-zhong, Research on Financial and Economic Issues, vol.3, 2017, pp.19-27.
Historicism and the Development of Pluralism in Economics, Social Sciences in China Review, vol.1, 2016, pp.42-45.
The Initiation of Official Economic Investigation in Modern China: a Preliminary Study on the Chinese Government Bureau of Economic Information (1920-1937) (Co-authored with Yuru Wang), Journal of Tsinghua University (Philosophy and Social Sciences), vol.4, 2015, pp.81-86.
The Historical Experiences of Land Distribution in Modern China: a Documentary Review, Nankai Economic Studies, vol.3, 2015, pp.131-139.
The Birth and the Shift in the Study of Economic History in the US, 1870-1960, World History, vol.4, 2014, pp.114-123.
The Evolution of British Economics and the Growth of Economic History (1870-1940) (Co-authored with Donggang Zhang), Social Sciences in China, vol.4, 2014, vol.45-65.
Rural Finance in Republican China: A Case Study of the Agricultural Credit Administration’s Rural Credit Cooperatives, Journal of South China Agricultural University (Social Science Edition), vol.2, 2014, pp.142-147.
From Culture, Ideology to Culture-making Power: The Generalized Virtual Economy from a Political Economy Perspective（II）(Co-authored with Li Zhang)，Research on the Generalized Virtual Economy, vol.4, 2013, pp.24-30.
Reviving the Lost Tradition: The Generalized Virtual Economy from a Political Economy Perspective（I）(Co-authored with Li Zhang), Research on the Generalized Virtual Economy, vol.1, 2012, pp.5-14.
A Preliminary Study on Application and Processing of Investigation Data in GDP Accounting during Republic China, Researches in Chinese Economic History, vol.4, 2011, pp.61-68.
The Rural Income Distribution and Consumption Difference in Modern China, Historical Research in Anhui, vol.4, 2009, pp.24-34.
The Positive Analysis of the Condition of Chinese Peasant-families’ Income and Expenditure before and after the Year 1930 (Co-authored with Donggang Zhang), Journal of Huazhong Normal University (Humanities and Social Sciences), vol.4, 2009, pp.87-91.
The Evolution of Chinese Historical Studies in America: An Eurocentric Perspective, Historiography Quarterly, vol.1, 2009, pp.74-85.
Towards an Embedding Perspective: The Governance of Chamber of Commerce and Industry Association (Co-authored with Siquan Xie), Journal of Huazhong University of Science and Technology(Social Science Edition), vol.1, 2008, pp.74-78.
BOOK CHAPTERS:
“Major Theories on the Principal Contradiction in the Socialist Society”, in Zili He, et al, Inheritance and Development: Economic Exploration and Innovation of the Communist Party of China during the past one Hundred Years, pp. 76-95, Beijing: Economic Science Press, 2021.
“China's Economic Growth and Its Position in Modern World Economy”, in Yuru Wang(ed.), Chinese Economic History, pp. 252-271, Beijing: Higher Education Press, 2019.
 “Comparative Advantage and Catching up Economy: Theory, History and Reality”, in Li Zhang (ed.), The Historical Perspective of Economic Globalization: The First Economic Globalization and China, pp.47-74, Hangzhou: Zhejiang University Press, 2012.
BOOKS EDITED:
Collected Works of Franklin Ho, 2 volumes, Tianjin: Nankai University Press, 2020.
Collected Works of H. D. Fong, vol. 1-6, Beijing: The Commercial Press, 2011.
TRANSLATION (From English to Chinese):
Power over Peoples: Technology, Environments, and Western Imperialism, 1400 to the Present by Daniel R. Headrick (co-translator: Lijie Gao), Hangzhou: Zhejiang University Press, forthcoming.
China: Its Environment and History by Robert B. Marks (co-translator: Lijie Gao), Beijing: China Renmin University Press, first edition 2015; second edition 2022.
Fat China: How Expanding Waistlines are Changing a Nation by Paul French and Matthew Crabbe (co-translator: Beini Jia), Hangzhou: Zhejiang University Press, 2012.
Tigers, Rice, Silk, and Silt: Environment and Economy in Late Imperial South China by Robert B. Marks (co-translator: Yuru Wang), Nanjing: Jiangsu People’s Publishing Ltd, 2011.
Why Europe? The Rise of the West in World History, 1500-1850 by Jack A. Goldstone, Hangzhou: Zhejiang University Press, 2010.

Major Research Grants

National Social Science Foundation, “The Sociology of the Mathematicalization of Neoclassical Economics (1930—1960)”
Development Fund of Humanities, Nankai University, “How National Governance Mechanism Shapes the Economic Studies in the US and China”
Chinese Academy of History, “Chinese Environmental History” (subcontracted as a team leader)
Publicity Department of the Communist Party of China, “The Institute of Pacific Relations, Han-seng Chen, and the Spread of Political Economy during the Republic of China”
Collaborative Innovation Center for China Economy, “The International Academic Environment of the Spread of Economics during the Republic of China: The Rockefeller Foundation and Nankai Institute of Economics”
National Social Science Foundation, “Data Compilation and Database Construction of Modern Chinese Economic Indexes, 1920s-1940s” (subcontracted as a team leader)
Ministry of Ecology and Environment, “Data Processing and Compilation of Contemporary Chinese Environmental History: Energy, industrial restructuring, urban and rural environmental protection” (subcontracted as a team leader)
Ministry of Education, “The Evolution of National Government's Economic Policy from an International Perspective (1927-1937)”