Graduate School of Economics
NOELLERT Matthew Zachary

Books and Other Publications

1. An Early Modern Economy in China: The Yangzi Delta in the 1820s
Li Bozhong, Wee Kek Kon, Matthew Noellert (Joint translator)
Cambridge University Press 2021.2 (ISBN : 9781108479202)
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2. Power over Property: The Political Economy of Communist Land Reform in China
Matthew Noellert (Sole author)
University of Michigan Press 2020.9
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Papers

1. Weak central government, strong legal rights: the origins of divergent legal institutions in 18th-century Chinese and Japanese rice markets (Peer-reviewed)
Rui Wang, Qianmao Zhu, Matthew Noellert
Humanities and Social Sciences Communications Vol.11,No.1 2024.1
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2. Education, class and assortative marriage in rural Shanxi, China in the mid-twentieth century (jointly worked) (Peer-reviewed)
Xing Long, Cameron Campbell, Li Xiangning, Matthew Noellert, James Lee
Research in Social Stratification and Mobility Vol.66,pp.1-15 2020.4
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3. Rural Migrants and Settlement Rights in Early Twentieth-Century Shanxi: A Study of ‘Class Background Registers’ (Translation) (Peer-reviewed)
Zhang Aiming, Hu Yingze, Matthew Noellert
Rural China Vol.15,No.2,pp.249-276 2018.8
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4. Rural Society and Macro-History: A Study of the Social and Economic Structure of Daobei Village, 1935-1966 (Peer-reviewed)
Matthew Noellert
Journal of Shanxi University (Philosophy & Social Science) Vol.41,No.1,pp.43-49 2018.1
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5. China multi-generational panel dataset, Shuangcheng (CMGPD-SC) 1866–1913. User guide (jointly worked)
Wang Hongbo, Chen Shuang, Dong Hao, Matthew Noellert, Cameron Campbell, James Lee
Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research 2017.11
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6. Debating Morals and the Discourse of Social Change in the Anthropology of Modern China (Peer-reviewed)
Matthew Noellert
Anthropological Quarterly Vol.84,pp.757-767 2011.7
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Presentations

No. Name of subject/Conference Name Year Site
1. Data Preservation and Database Construction using Semi-Structured Administrative Records: The China Rural Revolution Dataset – Siqing(Chinese Historical Databases: Sources, Methods, Prospects)
Holding date : 2024.1.11 - 2024.1.12
Presentation date : 2024.1.12
2. Teaching Empirical Analysis, Comparative Thinking, and Collaborative Research to History Students(The 4th Tsinghua International Forum on Digital Humanities. Forum 3: GenAI and Talent Development for Historical Research. Tsinghua University and The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
Holding date : 2023.12.8 - 2023.12.9
Presentation date : 2023.12.9
3. Spatial Mobility of Former Elite in the Early People’s Republic of China, 1949-1965(Social Science History Association Annual Meeting)
Holding date : 2023.11.16 - 2023.11.19
Presentation date : 2023.11.19
4. Extended Kin Networks of Political and Social Elite in Rural China, c.1965(Quantitative History Conference 2023. Organized by Centre for Quantative History, HKU Business School, University of Hong Kong)
Holding date : 2023.10.25 - 2023.10.26
Presentation date : 2023.10.25
5. Small Beginnings: New Data and New Perspectives on the Early PRC(China-Japan Academic Forum & the Symposium Marking the 50th Anniversary of Normalization of Diplomatic Relations Between China and Japan. Organized by the School of Economics, Renmin University of China and Hitotsubashi University.)
Holding date : 2023.4.22
Presentation date : 2023.4.22
6. Kin Network and Migration Patterns in Revolutionary China, 1946-1966(International Seminar on Migration in the Past: Patterns, Causes, Consequences, and Implications. Organized by the IUSSP Scientific Panel on Historical Demography in collaboration with the Center for Social Research, Guanghua School of Management, Peking University)
Holding date : 2022.10.28
Presentation date : 2022.10.28
7. Power over Property: The Political Economy of Communist Land Reform in China(Economic Development Workshop/CEI Seminar)
Holding date :
Presentation date : 2021.11.12
8. Power over Property: The Political Economy of Land Reform in China(China Colloquium Series)
Holding date :
Presentation date : 2021.3.30
イェール大学 (オンライン)
9. Collectivization, Urbanization, and Occupational Mobility in Inland North China in the Mid-20th Century(Annual Meeting of the Social Science History Association)
Holding date :
Presentation date : 2019.11.21
シカゴ
10. Structural Change and Occupational Mobility in Mid-20th North China: Evidence from Shanxi Province(Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association)
Holding date :
Presentation date : 2019.8.10
ニューヨーク
11. Beyond the Household, the Village, and the Countryside: Social Relations and Boundaries in Revolutionary China, 1946-1966(Annual Meeting of the Social Science History Association)
Holding date :
Presentation date : 2018.11.8
フィーニックス
12. Capitalism in Collectivized China: An Analysis of Household Incomes in the Mid-1960s(History from Shanxi)
Holding date :
Presentation date : 2018.9.22
Taiyuan, Shanxi, CHINA
13. Capitalism and Collectivism in the Chinese Countryside: A Study of 1960s Microdata(Annual Meeting of the Social Science History Association)
Holding date :
Presentation date : 2017.11.2
モントリオール
14. Equality and Growth: Changes in the Composition and Distribution of Wealth in Rural China, 1946-1966(2nd Research Forum on Global and Transnational History)
Holding date :
Presentation date : 2017.1.8
中国山东省济南市
15. Equality and Growth: Changes in the Composition and Distribution of Wealth in Rural China, 1946-1966(Annual Meeting of the Social Science History Association)
Holding date :
Presentation date : 2016.11.17
シカゴ
16. Equality and Growth: Changes in the Composition and Distribution of Wealth in Rural China, 1946-1966(Rural Collectivization in China and Eastern Europe: Equality and Growth)
Holding date :
Presentation date : 2016.8.5
中国山西省太原市
17. Education, Class and Marriage in Rural Shanxi, China in the Mid-20th Century(Annual Meeting of the Population Association of Japan)
Holding date :
Presentation date : 2016.6.11
柏市(麗沢大学)
18. Education, Class and Marriage in Rural Shanxi, China in the Mid-20th Century(International Sociological Association, RC28 Conference)
Holding date :
Presentation date : 2016.5.26
シンガポール
19. Inequality within Equality: A Preliminary Analysis of the Distribution of Wealth in Collectivization-era Rural Shanxi, 1946-1966(Data, Perspectives, Methods: Multi-disciplinary Dialogue and Reflections in Contemporary Chinese History Research)
Holding date :
Presentation date : 2015.11.13
Taiyuan, Shanxi, CHINA
20. Communist Land Reform and the Redistribution of Rural Wealth: Evidence from Northeast China, 1946-1948(XVIIth World Economic History Congress)
Holding date :
Presentation date : 2015.8.3
京都
21. Education, Class and Marriage in Rural Shanxi, China in the Mid-20th Century(XVIIth World Economic History Congress)
Holding date :
Presentation date : 2015.8.3
京都
22. A Preliminary Analysis of Rural Shanxi's Socioeconomic Structure, 1935-1966: The Case of Daobei Village, Pingyao County(Conference on A New People, Land, and Nation: Rethinking the History, Culture, and Thought of the Establishment of the PRC)
Holding date :
Presentation date : 2015.4.24
Beijing, CHINA
23. New Perspectives on Communist Land Reform: Evidence from Shuangcheng County, Heilongjiang, 1946-1948(Joint HKUST-UCLA Workshop on Rewriting the Past: Historical Big Data and a Scholarship of Discovery)
Holding date :
Presentation date : 2014.6.9
香港
24. New Perspectives on Communist Land Reform: Evidence from Shuangcheng County, Heilongjiang, 1946-1948(Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies)
Holding date :
Presentation date : 2014.3.27
フィラデルフィア
25. Land Reform and Local Government in China's Northeast: The Case of Shuangcheng County, Heilongjiang, 1947-1949(International Conference on Land Reform and Rural Chinese Society)
Holding date :
Presentation date : 2013.8.9
Jincheng, Shanxi, CHINA
26. Global Contexts and Local Texts of Revolution: Land Reform in Shuangcheng County, 1946-1948(Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association)
Holding date :
Presentation date : 2012.11.14
サンフランシスコ
27. Imperialism, Colonialism, Communism: State Recording and State Making in Northeast China, 1900-1949(Annual Meeting of the Social Science History Association)
Holding date :
Presentation date : 2012.11.1
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Awards

No. Award name Year
1. Luce/ACLS Program in China Studies Postdoctoral Fellowship 2017.8
2. Postdoctoral Fellowship (China Postdoctoral Science Foundation) 2014.10
3. Hong Kong PhD Fellowship Scheme 2010.9

Research Projects

No. Research subject Research item(Awarding organization, System name) Year
1. The Composition and Distribution of Household Incomes in Twentieth Century Rural China
若手研究
( Awarding organization: 日本学術振興会 System name: 科学研究費助成事業 若手研究 )
2021.4 - 2024.3
2. Between the Old and the New: Marriage in Rural China During the Middle of the 20th Century

( System name: 共同研究(国際共同研究) )
2017.1 - 2020.12
3. Fanshen Revisited: New Perspectives on Land Reform and Rural Collectivization in North China, 1945-1965

( System name: 共同研究(国際共同研究) )
2015.9 - 2018.9
4. Socialist Education Campaign

( System name: International Joint Research Projects )
2014.10
5. Chinese land reform

( System name: International Joint Research Projects )
2010.8