Centre for Environmental History and Development

Researches

Publication

  • The Recurrence of Capitalism in Chinese History: an overview based on CHEN Yinke’s conservative historical thoughts, Tang-Song Historical Review, Vol. 9 (December 2021), 17-23.

  • Taxation and Labour Services in Wenzhou during the Song and Yuan Dynasties, General History of Wenzhou, Song and Yuan Volume (Beijing：Renmin Press), August 2021, 103-115. 

  • Warfare and the Fiscal State During the Tang-Song Transition, co-authored with Kwan Kai-wan, Researches in Chinese Economic History, Issue 2 (April, 2021), No. 1634, 39-56.

  • A Reassesment of Ye Shi’s Conservative Thoughts, Jingshen renwenzhuyi lunwenji (Beijing：Renmin Press), September 2020, 237-254.

  • The demonetization in the collection of land taxes during the Song-Yuan-Ming transition: a case study of Wenzhou, Lishi Wenxian Yanjiu (Shanghai：Zhongguo lishiwenxian yanjiuhui) ，Vol. 38, No.1 (2017), 329-353. Revised and reprinted in Songshi yanjiu zhucengmian, Beijing: Peking University Press (June 2020), 438-470.

  • The making of a fiscal state in Song China, 960-1279, Economic History Review, Vol. 68, Issue 1 (Feb. 2015), 48-78.

  • Market integration in China, AD 960-1644, in A History of Market Performance from Ancient Babylonia to the Modern World, edited by R. J. van der Spek, B. van Leeuwen, and J. L. Zanden, Routledge (August 2014), 308-338.

  • How to Tax Commerce in Pre-industrial China, The Historical Inquiry，Vol. 52, December 2013, 145-249.

  • Long-distance Trade and Water Transports in China, 1000-1800, in Feudalism in Multiple Perspectives, A Collection of Papers in Celebration for Professor Keyao Ma's 80th anniversary, Beijing: Zhongguo shehuikexue wenxian chubanshe (May 2013) ， 446-485.

  • Agricultural productivity in early modern Jiangnan, in The Economy of Lower Yangzi delta in Late Imperial China, edited by Billy K. L. So, Routledge (Academia Sinica Series, 2013), 99-117.

  • Long-term changes in prices, wages and the size of the monetary economy in pre-industrial China, 1000-1770, in Yida toujian ji: A collection of papers in honorary of Liang Fangzhong, Guangzhou: Guangdong renmin (Dec 2012) ， 437-99. 

  • Evolution in the land taxes in Guangdong during the Song-Yuan-Ming transition, Clio at Beida, No. 17 (December 2012), 68-105（Beijing：Beijing daxue chubanshe).

  • The Cause of the Single-whip Reform in the late Sixteenth Century, co-authored with Liu Hongling, A collection of essays on the Ming and Qing dynasties, No. 12 (June 2012), 113-148（Beijing：Gugong chubanshe).

  • Counterfeiting and the circulation of money in the Chinese economy, 1450-1600, Journal of Hebei University, Philosophy & Social Sciences, Vol. 36, No. 2(2011), 24-32.

  • Song China's Water Transport Revolution Revisited: A Study of the 1077 Commercial Tax Data, Pacific Economic Review, Volume 17, No. 1 (2012), 24-32.

  • An Estimate of Money Stock in the Ming Era, Researches in Chinese Economic History, Issue 1 (March 15, 2011), 72-83. 

  • Writing Capitalism in Modern Historiography, Journal of Tsinghua University, Philosophy & Social Sciences, No.1 (January 2010), 14-26.

  • Estimation of Song and Ming China’s National Incomes, Journal of Tsinghua University, Philosophy & Social Sciences, Issue 3 (2009), 7-11. The full text is reprinted by Xinhua wenzhai, 17 (2009), pp. 60-63. 

  • Warfare, Markets and the Fiscal State: a reconsideration of Southern Song Taxation and finance, The Historical Inquiry，Vol. 42 (December 2008), 221-285.

  • KWAN, Kai Wan, Chinese Siege Warfare during late Tang and the Five Dynasties and Ten States Period, Taipei: Wanjuan lou Books CO, Ltd, 2021.

  • KWAN, Kai Wan, “Beyond and Behind the Wall: Siege Warfare of Sui-Tang China, AD.600-900,” in Daniel P. Franke and John D. Hosler, eds., The Routledge Handbook of Medieval Military Strategy. (London and New York: Routledge, Fall 2024).