ABSTRACT
This chapter explores three women's doctoral dissertations chronologically. Mabel Ping-hua Lee's doctoral dissertation "The Economic History of China: With Special Reference to Agriculture," was the first modern survey of Chinese agricultural economic history. Facing the unprecedented political and economic changes caused by the expansion of foreign trade, Lee emphasized the importance of learning from agricultural adjustments and policy reforms in the past. Chung-ying Kuo's "British Trade in China, 1894–1914" focused on China's imports from Britain in Sino-British trade. Britain was one of the pioneer western countries to build a trade relationship with China, and had a primary influence on the development of modern China's economy. Yu-pu Pan's doctoral research, "International Capital Movements and Capital Formation," studied the theory of international capital flows, a major topic of international economics, and its relation to China's economic development. These three pioneering women offered important economic proposals aimed at coping with Chinese new reality.
