Welcome to my personal site. I am a PhD candidate in East Asian Studies at the University of Edinburgh. My research focuses on the social and financial history of modern East Asia. In recent years, I am passionate about experimenting with digital tools and emerging technologies in humanities research.

My PhD project examines the economic and financial mobilisation of the wartime Japanese Empire at national and local levels, as well as its implementation in Hong Kong, a city on the imperial periphery. It argues that the mobilisation of the empire’s capital transcended mere economic planning or propaganda relegated to paper. Rather, it was embodied in infrastructures, social networks, regional connections, capital flows, and investment decisions that permeated every corner of the empire. Nascent findings have recently been published in the Financial History Review. My research has been supported by the Economic History Society, the Henry Kaufman Financial History Fellowship Programme, and the University of Edinburgh’s Moray Endowment Fund.

Outside of my PhD project, I am a Training Fellow at the University of Edinburgh’s Centre for Data, Culture & Society, where I have delivered courses on network analysis. I am also a regular contributor to the Digital Orientalist and am a fellow of the Cold War Archival Research Institute.

Born and raised in Hong Kong. I hold a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Hong Kong and an MSc in International and Asian History from the London School of Economics and Political Science. 

More about my research can be found here, and my CV is available here. I can be contacted at t.h.wong-2@sms.ed.ac.uk.