All-time favorite student compliment: "He looks and dresses like a supervillian and even has a supervilliany name. But actually, is quite nice."

Who's going to break it to this author that it wasn't the singing of canaries that alerted miners to toxic gases?

One of my dissertation papers was awarded a prize at Academy of Management. The paper reveals how market administrators in Maoist China selectively enforced anti-market policies, reshaping institutions from below and creating the conditions for tacit market creation.

China’s new retirement age for males born in 1970/12 is 61.5, and females is 55.25. With life expectancy 81.5 🇩🇰 vs 79 🇨🇳 and China’s much longer working hours (2450 hrs vs 🇩🇰 1563), Chinese work 4600 hours for 1 year of retirement, while Danes need to work for 6500 hours.

My article with @zeren_li was awarded the Gordon White Prize from China Quarterly. The article offers a counter-narrative of China's economic development, revealing the scope of underground market activity even during the height of anti-capitalist campaigns in the 1960-70s.

Congratulations to @adamkfrost (of @CBScph) , and @zeren_li (of @LKYSch @NUSingapore) who have been awarded the 2024 Gordon White Prize for their article "Markets under Mao: Measuring Underground Activity in the Early PRC” (OA). https://t.co/aGMa5BZZUW

A call for papers for a timely symposium on “The Politics of Knowledge Production about China” which will be held by The China Quarterly @chinaquarterly at SOAS in mid-late June 2025. Main questions that will be discussed include - How can China scholars around the world

This is how I prefer to be addressed in all future correspondence:

🚨Amazing new China studies resource🚨: @ACLS1919 has published an online compilation of open-access databases, archives, and subject guides The page will be regularly updated and you can suggest other databases to include. Check it out 👇 https://t.co/4tQkUEx65i

The latest issue of Capitalism: A Journal of History and Economics is OUT! FREE ACCESS FOR ONE MONTH!!! Please RT to help us expand access!!! 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻@jonathandjenner @HelenTilley15 @_TimBarker @chrishughes @flandreaumarc @BiltoftCN @PennPress https://t.co/9gRCC3d0VR

3rd World Congress of Business History to be held in Toronto in 2026 https://t.co/0z5h9gicy0

https://t.co/PbLknnJ93r Excited to have joined @Harvard's symposium on the global future of higher ed! Check out Daedalus' issue on this topic https://t.co/WgfNjNehmP and my essay on private sector universities in India: https://t.co/9ivNnrgK5Q. @HarvardHBS @MittalInstitute

As @TheEconomist notes, Harvard, along with our peer institutions, are revitalizing student programs and academic engagement with China.  A new Harvard Summer School is being launched in cooperation with @FudanUni in Shanghai. https://t.co/K29fwyR73u

More adventures in cross-disciplinary writing: This time, adding a management theoretical framing to my history article

Revising history manuscript for audience of management scholars

my chapter in this report argues for a self-interested defense of academic engagement with China. It's no longer sufficient to justify engagement on liberal internationalist goals. But universities and gov't actors could do more 1/8

Today is publication day! A critical history of news, technology, and politics, the book sheds new light on the emergence of modern mass societies, not only in China but around the world. Happy to share a discount code through SUP. Questions welcome!

A friendly reminder that the #deadline for submissions to the #specialissue in Business History ✨ In the Absence of Archives: Lessons from Less Developed Countries ✨ is March 31st. Guest editors @adamkfrost @marcelo_bucheli @GrietjieVerhoef https://t.co/ymCDu655xm #bizhis #cfp

#BHC2024 #MentoringWeek coming soon. Emerging Scholars you are welcome to be part of it during the first week of March. Organizers ESC Committee: @GhassanMoazzin Ellen Nye @adamkfrost @paulavedoveli Chris Nitschke & myself.