“Electric China: The Origins of the Chinese Electrical and Electronics Industries, 1870-1937”, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, 6 November 2024.
“Electric China: The Origins of the Chinese Electrical and Electronics Industries, 1870-1937”, Duke Kunshan University, Kunshan, 28 October 2024.
“Marconi, Telefunken, the Radio Corporation of America and Mitsui – Multinational Companies and Wireless Telegraphy in China, 1912-1937”, Business History Conference Annual Meeting, Providence, 14-16 March 2024.
“State Building and Communications in Late Qing and Republican China: The Growth of Chinese Long-distance Telephone Infrastructure, 1900-1937”, “Enterprises and Societal Transformation in Modern China” Conference, Fudan University, Shanghai, 3-4 November 2023.
“The Early Development of Long-Distance Telephony in China and its Economic Impact, 1900-1937”, European Business History Association Annual Meeting, Oslo, 24-26 August 2023.
“Calling Beijing, Calling Nanjing: The State, Business and the Early History of China’s Long-Distance Telephone Network, 1900-1937”, Business History Conference Annual Meeting, Detroit, 16-18 March 2023.
“Call to the Nation: The Origins of China’s National Telephone Network, 1900-1937”, Workshop in Economic and Business History (Online), Osaka University, Osaka, 2 February 2023.
“The Telephone and the Nation – The Early Development of China’s National Telephone Network, 1927–1937”, Business History Society of Japan (経営史学会) Annual Conference, Sendai, 4-5 December 2021.
“Electric Pioneers: Chinese Lamp Manufacturers and the Origins of China’s Electrical Appliance Industries, 1911–1937”, 2nd World Congress of Business History, Online Meeting, 10 September 2021.
“The Business of Electrification – Hu Xiyuan, Oppel Lamp Manufacturers Ltd. and the Birth of the Chinese Electric Lamp Industry, 1921–1937”, Business History Collective, Online Meeting, 11 May 2021.
“Hu Xiyuan, Oppel Lamp Manufacturers Ltd. and Sino-Foreign Competition in the Electric Lamp Industry in China, 1921–1937,” Business History Conference Annual Meeting, Online Meeting, 11-13 March 2021.
“Electric China: A History of the Chinese Electrical and Electronics Industries, 1870–1937,” “Making Modernity in East Asia: Technologies of Everyday Life, 19th – 21st Centuries” Lecture Series (Online), Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences, The University of Hong Kong, 4 February 2021.
“The ‘Chinese Edison’ – Hu Xiyuan, Oppel Lamp Manufactures Ltd. and the Growth of the Chinese Electric-Lamp Industry, 1921-1937,” Business History Society of Japan (経営史学会) Annual Conference, Kyoto, 5-6 December 2020.