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Networks of Capital: German Bankers and the Financial Internationalisation of China (1885–1919)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 November 2019

GHASSAN MOAZZIN
GHASSAN MOAZZIN*
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Ghassan Moazzin is an assistant professor at the Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Hong Kong. This article is a summary of his doctoral dissertation completed in 2017 at the University of Cambridge under the supervision of Hans van de Ven. The dissertation was supported by grants from the Arts and Humanities Research Council of the United Kingdom, the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), the British Council, the China Scholarship Council, and the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation (Grant No. DD017-U-15). Additional travel funding was provided by St. Catharine’s College, Cambridge, and the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Cambridge. He is grateful to the editor Andrew Popp for comments on an earlier draft of this summary. E-mail: gmoazzin@hku.hk
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Enterprise & Society , Volume 20 , Issue 4 , December 2019 , pp. 796 - 808
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