Chicheng Ma is an Associate Professor of Economics at HKU Business School, with a courtesy appointment at the Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences. He also serves as Associate Director of the Centre for Quantitative History at the University of Hong Kong. His research focuses on economic history and development, with a particular specialisation in historical China and its interactions with the West. He was awarded the Royal Economic Society Prize for the best paper in the Economic Journal (2020), the Hong Kong University Research Output Prize (2021), and the Economic History Association’s Arthur H. Cole Prize for the best article in the Journal of Economic History (2022). He serves on the editorial board of the Economic History Review and as an associate editor of the Asia-Pacific Economic History Review and the Journal of Comparative Economics.

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