Zhaojin Zeng

Faculty member, Department of History, University of Pittsburgh

Zhaojin Zeng is Visiting Assistant Professor of East Asian History at the University of Pittsburgh. As a historian of modern China and East Asia, Zeng's research and teaching focus on transnational economic, business, and industrial history, digital humanities, and quantitative analysis. His current book project, Engineering Modern China: Industrial Factories and the Transformation of the Chinese Economy in the Twentieth Century, examines the role of industrial factories in the intertwined processes of economic transition, technological change and state-building from the late Qing to post-Mao eras. His journal articles have appeared in World Development and Entreprises et Histoire, and his research has received funding from Harvard University, Harvard Business School, the D. Kim Foundation, the Association for Asian Studies, and the Business History Conference, among others. Zeng holds his Ph.D. in History from the University of Texas at Austin and an M.Phil. in Social Science from the Hong Kong University of Science & Technology.

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Interest Group Membership

Emerging Scholars

Research Interests

Business and Economic History

East Asia

China