Ghassan Moazzin is Associate Professor at the Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences and the Department of History. Before coming to Hong Kong in 2019, he was a JSPS International Research Fellow at the Graduate School of Economics of the University of Tokyo. He has also been a visiting scholar at East China Normal University in Shanghai, the Institute of Modern History at Academia Sinica in Taipei, Fudan University, and the National Humanities Center in North Carolina. Moazzin’s research focuses on the history of modern China, with a particular interest in economic and business history, global history, and the history of technology. He has previously worked on the history of foreign banks and international finance in late 19th and early 20th century China. In 2022, his first monograph, Foreign Banks and Global Finance in Modern China: Banking on the Chinese Frontier, 1870 – 1919, was published by Cambridge University Press. His research has also been published in Cross-Currents, Modern Asian Studies, Business History Review, Enterprise & Society, International Journal of Asian Studies, Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, and Business History. Moazzin’s current major research and book project deals with the history of the electrical and electronics industries in China from the 19th century to the 1970s. In addition, he is also writing a book tentatively titled “A Business History of Modern China: c. 1800 to the Present,” which is under contract with Cambridge University Press.