My research investigates Chinese business and economic history, with particular attention to banking, financial networks, and the institutional foundations of trust during the Republican Era (1912–1949). I combine social-network analysis, archival quantification, and historical process-tracing applied to large-scale hand-coded archival sources.

Past work — appearing in Business History (ABDC 2025 A*, ABS 3★), the Australian Economic History Review, the Asia-Pacific Economic History Review, Managerial and Decision Economics, and the Chinese CSSCI journals Industrial Economic Review and Researches in Chinese Economic History — has examined interlocking directorates, regional cultural identity, employee training, and recruitment patterns in early Chinese banks. My research monograph, Research on Interbank Relationship and Economic Performance of Modern Banking Industry during the Republican Era (Paths International Ltd, 2022), provides the book-length statement of the project.

My current research agenda extends in three connected directions:

1. Trust infrastructure under stateless conditions — how Republican-era Chinese banks reconstructed credibility and cooperation when formal state guarantees were absent.
2. Inscription, calculative apparatus, and personnel governance — how personnel dossiers, recruitment records, and internal labour markets functioned as governmental technologies in early Chinese banking.
3. Qualitative restudies of organisational scholarship in non-Western settings — using Republican-era China to retheorise classical organisational claims. 

A complementary policy-facing strand, supported by an ASSA–CASS Joint Action Program grant (2025–2026), uses historical evidence on Australia–China economic cooperation to inform contemporary thinking on cross-border trust and regional security.

I welcome enquiries from research students and collaborators working at the intersection of economic history, banking, organisation studies, and social-network methods.