Ph.D. candidate,
University of Edinburgh
East Asia, Financial history, Transnational history, History of Capitalism, East Asian modern business history, Modern China, History of Science and Technology, Social and Cultural
Brian Tsz Ho Wong is a PhD candidate in East Asian Studies at the University of Edinburgh. His thesis examines the economic and financial mobilisation of the Japanese Empire during WWII, as well as the empire’s monetary policies and their consequences, such as hyperinflation. Nascent findings have recently been published in the Financial History Review.
Outside of his PhD project, he is a Training Fellow at the University of Edinburgh’s Centre for Data, Culture and Society, where he has delivered courses on applying network analysis to humanities research. He is also a regular contributor to the Digital Orientalist, a scholarly platform that explores developments in digital humanities within Asian studies.
Recent Publications:
“The ‘Internal Financing Mechanism’ and (Hyper-)inflation in the Wartime Japanese Empire,” Financial History Review 32, no. 1 (2025): 43–81.
Pedagogy Resources:
“Mapping a Family Network with Gephi,” CDCS Tutorials, 2025.
“Deciphering a Financial Network with Gephi,” CDCS Tutorials, 2025.
Public Writing:
“A Chronic Affliction: Capital Mobilisation in the Wartime Japanese Empire,” The Long Run Blog, 2 September 2025.
“A CARE Package for Hirohito,” Sources and Methods, 1 February 2024.
