LIU Ziang

Dr. LIU Ziang is a Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute for Near Eastern and East Asian Languages and Civilizations at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), specifically affiliated with the Chair for Sinology focusing on Intellectual and Cultural History of China. He holds a PhD from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), where he also taught courses on global and Chinese history.

Research Interests: Ziang specializes in the political economy and socioeconomic history of early modern and modern China, with a focus on fiscal monetisation between the 15th and 19th centuries. His work examines quantification in state governance, including transitions from corvée labor to waged labor, fiscal resource reallocation between central and local governments, and state regulations in industries like salt. Current projects at FAU (April–July 2022) involve land survey and class identification in the early People’s Republic of China (PRC), analyzing how statistical methods shaped governance.

Education: PhD in Economic History from LSE under Professors Oliver Volckart and Mary Morgan. Thesis topic: Fiscal monetisation and re-quantification in China between the 15th to 19th century.

Languages: English, French, Mandarin.