Koji Hirata is a Senior Research Fellow in History at Monash University. His research focuses on modern China and its foreign economic and political interactions, especially with Japan, Russia/the Soviet Union, and Britain. His recent publications include Making Mao’s Steelworks: Industrial Manchuria and the Transnational Origins of Chinese Socialism (Cambridge University Press, 2024). With a three-year DECRA fellowship from the Australian Research Council, he is currently writing a new book on Mao-era China’s international economic relations, focusing on the Soviet Union, Japan, Hong Kong, and beyond. He is also undertaking a separate book project on sovereign debt in late Qing and Republican China, with a particular—but not exclusive—focus on foreign loans from the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation (HSBC).
Dr. Koji Hirata
