Associate Professor Niv Horesh

 

 

Biography

BA (Economics) Hebrew University 1998; MA (East Asian Studies) Hebrew University 2001; PhD (East Asian Studies) ANU 2006

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Areas of Research / Teaching Expertise

China in World History;
Economic History of China;
Corporate Governance in Emerging Markets;
PRC Foreign Policy;
Shanghai, Past and Present;
Depictions of East Asia in Eighteenth-Century European Literature;
Depictions of the West in Nineteenth-Century East Asian Literature.

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Business and Public-Service Experience

Budget Officer - Israel Ministry of Environmental Protection (Jerusalem) - 1999-2000

Business Development Manager - ICD Security Solution (Beijing) LTD - 2001-2003

China Caseload Adviser (FOI) / Project Manager (Multicultural Affairs) - Department of Immigration and Citizenship (Canberra) - 2006-2008

 

Selected Publications

Books


Shanghai's Bund and Beyond: British Banks, Banknote Issuance and Monetary Policy in China, 1842-1937 (Yale University Press, 2009).


Refereed journal articles

2012. China Report (Published by SAGE). Volume 48, Number 4, pp. 375-392. "Between Copper, Silver and Gold: Japanese Banks of Issue in Taiwan, Northeast China and Korea, 1879–1937".

2012. Provincial China (Published by UTS e-Press). Co-authored with Dr Hyun Jin Kim and Dr Peter Mauch. Volume 4, Number 1, pp. 1-26. "'Seoul Searching': The History, Politics and Prejudice behind the Re-naming of Korea's Capital in Chinese". 

2012. Provincial China (Published by UTS e-Press). Volume 4, Number 1, pp. 68-99. "From Chengdu to Stockholm: A Comparative Study of the Emergence of Paper Money in East and West". 

2012. Provincial China (Published by UTS e-Press). Co-authored with Shuyu (Susie) WU. Volume 4, Number 1, pp. 116-139. "上海会超过香港吗" [Can Shanghai Surpass Hong Kong ?].

2012. Journal of Chinese Studies (Published by CUHK). "The Great Money Divergence: European and Chinese Coinage before the Age of Steam". Issue 55, pp. 103-137.

2012. Zhongguo shehui lishi pinglun 中国社会历史评论 (Review of Chinese Social History, Published by Nankai University). "从全球经济史透视中国封建币制的特点与共同点" [China's Pre-Modern and Early-Modern Currency Systems within Global Economic History: On Exceptionalism and Commonality]. Volume 13, pp. 407-420.

2011. China Report (Published by SAGE). Co-authored with Dr Hyun Jin KIM. Volume 47, Issue. 4, pp. 279-302. "Why Coins Turned Round the World Over? A Critical Analysis of the Origins and Transmission of Ancient Metallic Money".

2011. Economics Research International (Published by Hindawi). "The People's or the World's ? RMB Internationalisation in Longer Historic Perspective". Special Issue on the Chinese Economy after the GFC, pp. 1-13. 

2011. Chinese Journal of International Politics (Published by Oxford University Press and Tsinghua University). Volume 4, Issue 3, pp. TBA. “Autophobia? Israel's Geo-Politics in the Early ‘Chinese Century’”.

2011. Zmanim זמנים (Published by Tel-Aviv University). Issue 113, pp. 14-25. "? הפסקה עם עיר   השנייה ע"מלה ולאחר לפני שאנגחאי " [An On-Off Metropolis ? Shanghai Before and After World War II].

2010. China Review International. Volume 16 No 4, pp. 419-439. "Why Shanghai? On Engagement and Empiricism in the Field of Chinese Urban Historiography"

2010. Zhongguo shehui lishi pinglun 中国社会历史评论 (Chinese Social History Review, Published by Nankai University). Issue 11, pp. 375-385. "从韦伯一直到勃兰特: 西方学者关于晚清民国经济状况的最近辩论简介" [From Max Weber through to Loren Brandt: On Western Scholars' View of the Chinese Economy during the Late-Qing and Republican Eras"].

2010. Provincial China (Published by UTS e-Press). Volume 2, Number 1, pp. 39-67. "Shanghai Studies: An Analysis of Principal Trends in the Field".

2010. Journal of Modern Chinese History (Published by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and Roudledge). Volume 4, Issue 1, pp. 81-89. "Shanghai, Sweet and Sour: A Critique of Three Important Books on a Rapidly Changing City".

2009. China Review International (Published by Hawai'i University Press). Volume 16, Issue 1, pp. 18-32. "What Time Is the 'Great Divergence' ? And Why Economic Historians Think It Matters".

2009. Journal of the Oriental Society of Australia. Volume 41, pp. 97-114. "Is China Opening Up? Shanghai, Its Changing Economy, Historic Identity and Local Media as Anecdotal Test Case".

2009. Shilin 史林 (Published by the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences). Volume 116， Number 6, pp. 78-84. "从18世纪中西文学作品看全球贸易与货币历史的关系" [The History of Coinage and Global Trade: Reflections in 18th Century Chinese and Western Classics].

2009. American Journal of Chinese Studies (Published by the American Association for Chinese Studies). Volume 16, Number 2, pp. 201-213. “From Mudflat to Cyber-Hub ? The Shanghai Experience, 1842-2008”.

2009. Provincial China (Published by UTS e-Press). Volume 1, Number 2, pp. 61-75. “Location is (Not) Everything: Re-Assessing Shanghai’s Early Development 1840s-1860s”.

2009. International Journal of Asian Studies (published by Cambridge University Press). Volume 6, Number 2, pp. 201-217, "The Pendulum Swings Again: Recent Debates on China’s Prewar Economy".

2009. Asian Studies Review (published by ASAA and Routledge). Volume 33, Number 2, pp. 211-227, "Whitehall vs Old China Hands: The 1935-36 Leith-Ross Mission Revisited".

2008. Sungkyun Journal of East Asian Studies (published by the Korean Academy of East Asian Studies). Volume 8, Number 2, pp. 131-142, "Silk, Tea, and Treasure: Maritime Trade in Eighteenth-Century Literature".

2008. Enterprise & Society (published by Oxford University Press). Volume 9, Number 1, pp. 6-43, “‘Many a Long Day’: HSBC and Its China Note Issue in the Republican Era, 1912-1937”.

2008. Modern China (published by UCLA and Sage). Volume 34, Number 2, pp. 276-298, “Between Legal and Illegal Tender: The Chartered Bank’s Note Issue in China”.

2007. China Review (published by Hong Kong University Press). Volume 7, Number 1, pp. 1-26, “The Bund and Beyond: Re-Thinking the Sino-Foreign Financial Grid in Pre-War Shanghai”.

2006. Late Imperial China (published by Johns Hopkins University Press). Volume 27, Number 1, pp. 109-140, “Printed in London, Disbursed on the Bund: the Hongkong Bank and its Early Note Issue in Shanghai, 1865-1911”.

2006. Journal of the Institute of Asian Studies (Published in Chennai). Vol 23 No 2, pp. 63-82. "Monetary History Inside Out: Exactly How Common and Reliable Paper Money was during China's Late-Imperial Era, 1368-1911”.

2005. Journal of the Institute of Asian Studies (Published in Chennai). Volume 22, Number 2, pp. 1-12. "The Underside of Intellectual Renewal, Publishing and Early-Career Employment in Chinese Studies".

2004. Journal of the Institute of Asian Studies (Published by the University of Madras). Volume 21, Number 2, pp. 1-26. "The Transition from Coinage to Paper Money in China: Hallmarks of Statehood in Global Perspective, 8th Century BC to 1935 AD".

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