Ziang Liu is an economic historian on early modern and modern China. He received his PhD in Economic History from the London School of Economics. Before joining King's, he was an ESRC Early Career Fellow at the London School of Economics, a visiting fellow at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, and a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Hong Kong, where he taught courses on Chinese and global history.

Research interests and PhD supervision

• Global economic history
• State capacity
• Labour market, wages, and living standards
• Quantifcation
• Early modern and modern

China Ziang Liu works on Chinese and global socioeconomic history. His research covers comparative state-building, labour market, and long-run living standards in China between the 15th and the 20th centuries.

Teaching

Ziang Liu teaches undergraduate courses in economic history.

Expertise and public engagement

Ziang Liu writes for the daily press, including South China Morning Post and Singapore Lianhe Zaobao.

Selected publications

• 'Liu, Ziang. 2024. "Wages, labour markets, and living standards in China, 1530–1840." Explorations in Economic History, 92, p.101569.