Professor Shiue's research focuses on the economic history of long-run growth. She studies issues in market development and international trade, examining the long-run impact of the West on the development of institutional forms in China beginning in the nineteenth century. Another area of research is in kinship organization as it relates to intergenerational social mobility and human capital accumulation in pre-modern China.
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Economic History of China, History of Development and Economic Growth, Domestic and International Trade History of China, Education and Social Mobility in Pre-Modern Society, Comparative Economic History
