Carles Brasó Broggi
Carles Brasó Broggi holds a bachelor’s degree in Sociology and East Asian Studies and a doctoral degree in History (Pompeu Fabra University, 2010). He is currently a Ramón y Cajal fellow researcher (2020-25) at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya. He is a member of the research group ALTER – Crisis, otherness and representation.
His research is concerned with economic and business history in China. His study on the evolution of the Chinese textile industry in the 20th century culminated in the publication of the book Trade and Technology Networks in the Chinese Textile Industry (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016) and articles sent to journals such as Revue de Synthèse (2019) or Economic History of Developing Regions (2020).
Subsequently, he has focused on the relations between China and Spain from a global history perspective, centered in the twentieth century. Specifically, he has published articles on issues related with trade, medical knowledge and technology transfers in journals such as Revista de Historia Industrial (2017) or Modern Asian Studies (2019), among others. In 2022 he culminated a research about a group of international doctors who worked in the International Brigades and in China during the Japanese occupation with the publication of the book Los médicos errantes. De las Brigadas Internacionales y la revolución china a la guerra fría (Editorial Crítica).
Selected publications
Books
Brasó Broggi, C. (2016). Trade and Technology Networks in the Chinese Textile Industry. Opening Up Before the Reform. New York and Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
Link: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1057/9781137494054
Brasó Broggi, C. (2022). Los médicos errantes. De las brigadas internacionales y la revolución china a la guerra fría. Barcelona: Crítica.
Link: https://www.planetadelibros.com/libro-los-medicos-errantes/343863
Articles
Brasó Broggi, C. and Ge, J., (2020). “Planning China’s future: Liu Guojun’s conception of China’s post-war economic recovery”, Economic History of Developing Regions, 35 (3): 155-170.
Link: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/20780389.2020.1762172
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/20780389.2020.1762172
Brasó Broggi, C. (2019). “Workshops, factories and subcontractors in the Chinese woolen industry, 1880-1937”, Revue de Synthèse, 140 (7): 135-163.
Link: https://brill.com/view/journals/rds/140/1-2/article-p135_6.xml
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1163/19552343-14000006
Brasó Broggi, C. and Martínez-Robles, D. (2019). “Beyond colonial dichotomies: Spanish deficits and peripheral powers in treaty port China”, Modern Asian Studies, 53 (3): 1222-1247.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0026749X17000154
Brasó Broggi, C. (2017). “Las Aduanas Marítimas de China y el comercio sino-español, 1900-1930”, Revista de Historia Industrial, Economía y Empresa, 70: 109-143.
Link: https://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/HistoriaIndustrial/article/view/21670
Brasó Broggi, C. (2015). “The Weft of Shanghai Fashion. Economic Networks in Shanghai’s Fashion Industry”, China Perspectives, 3: 5-11.
Link: https://journals.openedition.org/chinaperspectives/6768
Book chapters
Brasó Broggi, C. (2018). “The bona fide contracts: An engineering company in wartime Shanghai, 1937-1945”, in Pretel. D., Camprubí, L., eds., Technology and Globalization. Networks of Experts. New York: Palgrave Macmillan: 257-282.
Link: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-75450-5_10
Brasó Broggi, C. (2017). “La cooperación sanitaria internacional en España y China, 1936-1945. El caso de los “médicos españoles””, in VV.AA., España – China, 1937-2017. 80 aniversario del Internacionalismo Antifascista, Granada: Editorial Comares: 97-119.
Link: https://www.comares.com/libro/espana-y-china-1937-2017_129274/