​Chicheng Ma is Associate Professor in Economics at the HKU Business School of the University of Hong Kong. He studies economic history and development, specialising in historical China and its contact with the West. He won the Royal Economic Society Prize for the best paper in the Economic Journal in 2020, Hong Kong University Research Output Prize in 2021, and the Economic History Association’s Arthur H. Cole Prize for the best article in the Journal of Economic History in 2022. As Principal Investigator, Chicheng has received competitive research grants from the Hong Kong Research Grant Council and the National Natural Science Foundation of China. He serves as Associate Director of the Centre for Quantitative History and Associate Professor (by courtesy) at the Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences.

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