岭南学术论坛系列讲座（第692期）

主要内容：
      Undergirded by a patrilineal kinship structure and a strong proclivity for ancestral worship, the Chinese clan functioned both as a socio-cultural and economic organization for centuries. Yet, its evolution over time remains underexplored. By leveraging a historical natural experiment over a newly digitized dataset covering 800 years (c. 1136–1935), we find that the Ritual Reform of 1536 contributed to 31% of the growth in ancestral halls - the hallmark of clans. By allowing commoners to worship their first ancestor (shizu), the reform effectively expanded clan size and heightened the demand for ancestral halls construction. Our findings highlight how the unwitting expansion of policy space for everyday economic and social life, when coupled with a strong pent-up demand for organized ancestral worship, facilitated the development of clans. Historically, the more clannish counties experienced higher population growth, more developed markets, and provided more public goods and social welfare.

报告人简介：

       龚启圣（James Kung），英国剑桥大学经济学博士。2011年-2018年在香港科技大学担任Yan Ai讲席教授以及香港科技大学高等研究院（IAS）的资深院士，2018年-2023年在香港大学担任Sein and Isaac Souede讲席教授，现为墨尔本大学商学与经济学院格里芬讲席教授（Griffin Chair in Economic History）。龚教授的主要研究领域为中国经济史、制度和政治经济发展，在The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Journal of Development Economics, Journal of Economic History, Journal of the European Economic Association, The Economic Journal, The Review of Economics and Statistics 等国际著名学术期刊发表论文130多篇。龚教授还是《比较经济学杂志》（Journal of Comparative Economics）的编委会成员，多次出席经济学领域重要学术会议并发表主旨演讲，其对中国经济的研究在学术界产生了深远影响

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