Quantitative History of China: State Capacity, Institutions and Development
暫譯: 中國的量化歷史：國家能力、制度與發展

Zhiwu Chen is Chair and Cheng Yu-Tung Professor in Finance at The University of Hong Kong (HKU). He currently serves as director of both Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences (HKIHSS) and Centre for Quantitative History (CQH). His research covers finance theory, the sociology of finance, economic history, quantitative history, emerging markets, as well as China's economy and capital markets. He was a former Professor of Finance at Yale University (1999-2017) and a Special-Term Visiting Professor at Peking University and Tsinghua University. In 2013, he started the annual Summer School for Quantitative History cum International Sympo-sium on Quantitative History at Tsinghua University and continues to organize them at Peking University, with the goal of promoting quantitative research on the history of China and beyond.

Cameron Campbell is Chair Professor in the Division of Social Science at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST). He is also a Distinguished Professor in the School of History and Culture at Central China Normal University. His research focuses on demography, stratification and inequality in historical China and in comparative perspective. For his research, he and his collaborators in the Lee-Campbell Group construct, analyze, and publicly release datasets constructed from archival and other sources. He was a Fellow of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford 2022-23, and a Guggenheim Fellow in 2004-2005. He was a Changjiang Scholar at Central China Normal University from 2017 to 2020.

Debin Ma is a Professor of Economics at Fudan University, Shanghai China and a Quondam Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford University. His main expertise is on the long-term economic growth of East Asia, especially China. His research interests include global history; the interna-tional comparison of living standards; institutions, legal traditions, and ideology; human capital and productivity; and the economic history of the silk industry. He has published widely on Asian and comparative economic history and is the co-editor of the Cambridge Economic History of China.

陳志武是香港大學（HKU）金融學的講座教授及鄭裕彤教授。他目前擔任香港人文社會科學研究所（HKIHSS）和定量歷史中心（CQH）的主任。他的研究涵蓋金融理論、金融社會學、經濟歷史、定量歷史、新興市場，以及中國的經濟和資本市場。他曾於耶魯大學擔任金融學教授（1999-2017），並曾是北京大學和清華大學的特聘訪問教授。2013年，他在清華大學創辦了年度定量歷史夏季學校及國際定量歷史研討會，並持續在北京大學舉辦，旨在促進對中國及其他地區歷史的定量研究。

卡梅倫·坎貝爾是香港科技大學（HKUST）社會科學系的講座教授。他同時也是中華人民共和國華中師範大學歷史與文化學院的特聘教授。他的研究專注於歷史中國的人口學、社會分層和不平等，並進行比較研究。為了進行研究，他和李-坎貝爾小組的合作者構建、分析並公開發佈從檔案和其他來源構建的數據集。他曾於2022-23年擔任斯坦福大學行為科學高級研究中心的研究員，並於2004-2005年獲得古根海姆獎學金。他於2017年至2020年期間是華中師範大學的長江學者。

馬德彬是中國上海復旦大學的經濟學教授，並曾是牛津大學全靈學院的研究員。他的主要專長是東亞，特別是中國的長期經濟增長。他的研究興趣包括全球歷史；生活水平的國際比較；制度、法律傳統和意識形態；人力資本和生產力；以及絲綢產業的經濟歷史。他在亞洲和比較經濟歷史方面發表了廣泛的著作，並且是《劍橋中國經濟史》的共同編輯。