Research field (4):
Local studies
, Economic history
, History - Asia/Africa
, Commerce
Research keywords (7):
流通
, Retail,
, Retail
, The history of distribution industry
, Chinese Economics
, Business History
, Economic History
Research theme for competitive and other funds (5):
2022 - 2026 Economic Reforms and the Department Store in China
2021 - 2025 Young Oriental Scholars of Shanghai Municipal Education Commission (Canceled)
2019 - 2020 Economic Reforms and the Emergence of Retail
2019 - 2019 The Decline of Physical Retailers in China in the Post-1978 Reform Period
2019 - The Decline of Physical Retailers in China in the Post-1978 Reform Period
Papers (9):
Rui SHI. Transforming Consumption: Alibaba and the Rise of Retail E-commerce in China. The Economic Review. 2025. 59. 1-25
Rui Shi. Domestic retailing, supply chain management, and the rise of fresh food supermarkets in China. Business History. 2023. (Early Online Publication). 1-32
Political risks and International Business: the nationalization of private international business in Communist China (1949-1969). 2nd World Congress on Business History & 24th Congress of the European Business History Association,. 2021. Conference proceedings
Shi, R. Loss of Department Stores' Dominant Status in China's Apparel Retail Industry. Enterprise and Society. 2021. 22. 1. 117-155
Rui Shi. Fabricating transnational capitalism: A collaborative ethnography of Italian-Chinese global fashion. Business History. 2020. 63. 8
Modern Distribution Encyclopedia
HAKUTO-SHOBO Publishing Company 2023 ISBN:9784561652434
Economic Reforms and the Emergence of Retail: Distribution Restructuring in China’s Reform Era
Kyoto University Press 2020 ISBN:9784814002719
Lectures and oral presentations (18):
Managing Retail Space: Reforms and the Evolution of Department Stores in China
(The 26th Annual Congress of the European Business History Association 2023 (EBHA 2023) 2023)
Economic Reforms and the Department Store in the Initial Period of New China
(The 2023 Sectional Meeting of the Business History Society of Japan 2023)
The Reform Trap: Loss of Department Stores' Dominant Status in China's Apparel Retail Industry
(Global Economic History Seminar 2022)
Economic Reforms and the Department Store in China: Nationalization and Store Management
(The 58th Congress of the Business History Society of Japan 2022)