The Hydrosphere
and
Socioeconomics
in Modern Asia

Shiroyama is exploring a regional history of Asia in terms of water and climate, for example the relationship between the climate, rainfalls and the commodity prices in the region.

She is a scholar of Chinese economic history and Asian economic history with emphases on China’s relations with the global economy. She has examined the monetary and financial systems of modern China, overseas Chinese remittances, the Chinese community in pre-modern Batavia. Her book China During the Great Depression: Market, State, and the World Economy, 1929–1937 (Harvard Asia Center, 2008) has been translated into Chinese and Japanese and was awarded the Masayoshi Ohira Memorial Prize in 2012.

Shiroyama received B.A. and M.A. from the University of Tokyo, and Ph. D. from Harvard University (History, 1999). Before coming to Graduate School of Economics, the University of Tokyo, she taught at Graduate School of Letters, Hokkaido University, and Graduate School of Economics, Hitotsubashi University.

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