TEACHING AND RESEARCH AREAS

Teaching Programme : Econometrics (Undergraduate, 2025 Spring); Economic History: Theory and Research Methodology (Postgraduate, 1/3 workload, 2025 Spring)

Teaching Focusing : Econometrics, Economic History

Research Areas : Economic History, Economic Geography, Development Economics, Political Economy

ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE

2024.09: Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Wuhan University

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Journal Papers (International)

Wang, Runnan. 2023. "Technology Transmission in Pre-modern China: Evidence from a Chinese Clan, 1400— 1800." Asia-Pacific Economic History Review, Vol.63 (2): 225-248.

Working Papers

"State and Spatial Distribution: A Thousand-Year Analysis of Salt Industry in China."

"Ideas Mobilize People: The Diffusion of Communist Ideology in China." (with Ying Bai and Ruixue Jia)

"The Social Cost of State Monopoly: China’s Salt Monopoly System and the Rise of Secret Societies, 1640—1910."

AWARDS AND HONORS

The History Project Research Grants, Harvard University & Institute for New Economic Thinking, 2023 – 2024

Postgraduate Studentship (Ph.D.), The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2019 – 2022

Postgraduate Studentship (M.Phil.), The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, 2017 – 2019

Outstanding Research Awards for Students in Humanities and Social Sciences, Zhejiang University, 2016