Faculty

Man Bun Kwan        
Associate professor
Fields: China, Japan

Phone: 556-0917
Email:kwanmb@email.uc.edu
Office: 360E McM

Professor Kwan specializes in modern China, particularly its business, economic, legal, and social history. When traveling in China, he enjoys rummaging through local markets for land deeds and contracts. He is currently working on a monograph and editing a volume of archival material on the Pacific Alkali Co., Ltd.

Selected Courses:
Asian Civilizations: China, Japan
Ancient China, Medieval China, Modern China

Selected Publications:
Jiuda jingyan gongsi dang'an ziliao huibian. Co-ed. With Zhao Jin and Gu Yun (Tianjin: People's Press, 2006).

"Managing Market, Hierarchy, and Network: The Jiuda Salt Industries, Ltd., 1914-1937." Enterpise and Society 6.3 (2005).

"Custom, The Code, and Legal Practice: The Contracts of Changlu Salt Merchants in Late Imperial China." In Madeleine Zelin, Jonathan K. Ocko, and Robert Gardella eds., Contract and Property in Early Modern China (Stanford University Press, 2004).