Boyao Zhang

PhD Candidate, University of Toronto

Modern China, Accounting, Political Economy, Business and social history of socialist systems
Business Historians at Business Schools

Boyao Zhang is a PhD candidate in modern Chinese history at the Department of East Asian Studies. His research focuses on the revolution in accounting in 20th-century China and its consequences for the competing modernizing projects of capitalism and socialism. He is primarily interested in how the routine bureaucratic drudgery performed by accountants and administrative clerks brought the problem of accountability to the heart of the revolutionary project of the Chinese Communist state.

Recent Presentations at BHC Annual Meetings