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Xu Bin
E-mail: xfreexeh@gmail.com & xfreexliber@yahoo.com
Research Interests
My major research area, and longest-established research interest, is the British economic and social history. In recent years, my research has focused largely on economic changes in 18th and 19th centuries. There are two areas I have special interests. Firstly, I intend to research the development of banking and the changes of institution about the industry in the industrial revolution. I hope I can probe the causes why the enormous growth of country banking happened in late 18th century and the process of the growth. Secondly, The conditions of banking in economic or financial crises in the period were another area I plan to exploit. All of banks except the Bank of England are private banks, which were found by no more than 6 partners, before 1826. Many private banks were affected adversely in the financial crises. These painful experiences should be a reason to establish the system of joint-stock banking company.
Education
Ph. D, British History, Nanjing University, 2006
(Doctoral Dissertation:Capital Investment in Britain’s Industrial Revolution)
MA, British History,Tianjin Normal University, 2000
BA, Literature,Tianjin Normal University, 1992
Teaching
Undergraduate
Modern World History; Political History of England;
Graduate
Western Economic and Social History; The Theories about the Development of Western Economy and Society
Professional Experience
Sept. 2016 to present, Professor, Institute of European Civilization
Sept. 2000 to present, School of History and Culture, Tianjin Normal University.
2007 to 2012, Associate Professor, Tianjin Normal University
2000 to 2006, Lecturer,Tianjin Normal University
Key Publications
Monograph
Capital Investment and Social Mechanism in Britain’s Industrial Revolution, Tianjin: Tianjin Academy of Social Sciences Press, 2011.
Articles
“The Causes of Industrial Revolution and Modern Economic Growth: Relevant Historical Interpretations over the Past Two Decades”,Historiography Quarterly, Issue 1, 2018.
“Governmental Response and Institutional Change in the British Financial Crisis of 1825”,Historical Research, Issue 5, 2017.
“Individual Rights in the English Parliamentary Enclosure”,World History,Issue 5, 2015.
“South Sea Bubble and Its Causation in Polities and Economy”,Historical Review, Issue 1, 2012.
“Workers’ Real Wages during British Industrial Revolution”,World History, Issue 6, 2011
Professional Affiliations
Member of China British History Association
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