Adam Frost
History of Capitalism, Modern China, Entreprenuership, Informal Economics
Business Historians at Business Schools
Adam K. Frost is a postdoctoral fellow at CBS. His research draws upon novel historical sources, oral histories, and original datasets to explore the history of entrepreneurship and state-business relations in 20th century China. Adam received his PhD, MA, and BA from Harvard and was a visiting scholar at Fudan University and the University of Southern California. His research has been supported by grants from the Institution of International Education (Fulbright), the Social Science Research Council, the US Department of Education (FLAS Grant), Harvard’s Fairbank and Asia Centers, the Institute of Humane Studies, and the Mercatus Institute at George Mason.
Service to the BHC
Emerging Scholars Committee 2025 - 2026 [Chair 2025 - 2026]
Emerging Scholars Committee 2022 - 2025
Kerr Prize Committee 2023 - 2024
Prizes and Grants from the BHC
Recent Conference Participation
| 2026 BHC Meeting:
Presenter, "The Gilded Cage: Agency and Structure in Strategic Uses of the Past"
Chair, Markets in the Shadows: State, Business, and informality in Twentieth-Century East Asia |
| 2023 BHC Meeting:
Presenter, Roundtable Presentation
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| 2023 BHC Meeting:
Presenter, "Speculation and Profiteering: The Entrepreneurial Transformation of Socialist China"
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| 2023 BHC Meeting:
Presenter, "Ordered Informality: The Economy of Begging in Northwest China"
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| 2023 BHC Meeting:
Presenter, "Spatial Entrepreneurship: Transforming Urban Space and Economic Inclusion in China"
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| 2020 BHC Meeting:
Presenter, "Taxi Shanghai: Entrepreneurship and Infrastructure in a Global Metropolis"
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