In this week's episode, we will discusses the new opportunities presented by sources available to scholars of business and economic activity in Qing and Republican-era China. Dr. Matthew Lowenstein from Hoover Institution introduces us to some useful collections of popular sources that are not held in any state archives and help us to further our understanding of Chinese social and business history. He was invited by the University of Hong Kong to give a talk entitled “New Perspectives on the Qing: Using Popular Sources, Data Analysis, and Accounting to Reconstruct Traditional Economic Practices.”