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Kenneth Pomeranz

University Professor of Modern Chinese History and the College

Office: 1126 E 59th St Social Sciences 218 Chicago, IL 60637

Phone: (773) 834-4247

kpomeranz1@uchicago.edu

Interests:

Reciprocal influences of state, society, and economy in late Imperial and twentieth-century China; the origins of a world economy as the outcome of mutual influences among various regions; environmental history in China; comparative studies of labor, family organization, and economic change in Europe and East Asia; expansion of China to its present frontiers

Professor Pomeranz's work focuses mostly on China, though he is also very interested in comparative and world history, particularly long-term global e...