James Kai-sing Kung (龚 启 圣)

James Kung is a Chair Professor of economics in the Division of Social Science at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.

His current research interests include: estimating the economic impact of the West and its attendant globalizing forces (including the diffusion of Western religion) on late imperial China; the economics of conflicts in historical China (Sino-nomadic conflict, peasant rebellions and piracy); the relationship between culture and development using the “genetic distance” approach; the growth implications of technical change and population dynamics in Ming-Qing China (circa 1500-1900); human capital and social mobility in Qing China, and the political economy of contemporary China.

Kung is currently on leave at Harvard University, where he is a Visiting Scholar in the Department of Economics (2011-2012).

(Last updated on 28-Spet-2011)
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