Dr Nora Yitong Qiu is an economic historian of East Asia, specialising in the Qing Empire and 20th century China.

You can find an extended version of the discussion at the Wide Open Air Exchange podcast. Nora is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Oxford in the Faculty of History as part of a research group studying Global Correspondent Banking 1870–2000, and at the time of this conversation Nora was in China for archival research.