Thesis: Financial Capitalism on the Periphery: The Rubber Boom and Bust in Shanghai
PhD Supervisor & 2nd Reader: Gopalan Balachandran and Filipe Calvão
Expected completion date: 2021
Jiajia Liu’s PhD dissertation “Financial Capitalism on the Periphery: the Rubber Boom and Bust in Shanghai” investigates the financial capitalism in late Qing China under the influence of Western capitalism. Her research is featured in a combination of both qualitative and quantitative methods in the study of a financial bubble of rubber stocks on the Shanghai Stock Exchange between 1910 and 1911. She also draws a comparison with that on the London Stock Exchange, and explores its origins in the Amazon and Southeast Asia. Jiajia holds two master’s degrees – Master in International Studies (specialized in Korean studies) from Seoul National University with scholastic achievement award, and Master in International Affairs from the Graduate Institute, Geneva. Chinese (mandarin) is her mother tongue. She is fluent in English and Korean (master's theses in both languages), has a working knowledge of French and Cantonese, and reads Japanese kanji.
Liu, Jiajia. "The Early History of Financial Capitalism in Shanghai". The Sixth Annual International Symposium on Quantitative History Paper Collection, vol. 1 (2018): 307-312.
Liu, Jiajia. "Uganda’s National Trade Policy: Drawing Linkages with Climate Change and Food Security". CUTS International Briefing Paper, no.5 (2015): 1-6.
Liu, Jiajia. "A Quantitative Research on Korean People’s National Preference–the U.S. or China?". Korean Foundation and East Asia Institute Next Generation Conference Proceeding (2013): 57-66.
Liu, Jiajia."South Koreans’ Negative Perceptions on China and Its Influence on China-South Korea Relations (in Chinese)". Fudan University Paper Collection of Wangdao Scholars, vol. II (2012): 187-200.
Teaching Experience
Teaching Assistant at the International History and Politics Department
The Graduate Institute Excellence Scholarship