Carles Brasó Broggi

Investigadors

Expert in::

  • East Asia
  • economic development
  • cultural studies
  • global studies
  • postcolonial studies
  • history
Research group
ALTER
Area
Arts and Humanities
Area of specialization
Languages and cultures,
UNESCO codes:
55, 5502, 550201, 5503, 550402, 550606

ODS:

  • 4 - Quality education
  • 10 - Reduced inequalities
  • 9 - Industry, innovation and infrastructure

Carles Brasó Broggi has a bachelor's degree in Sociology and East Asian Studies and a PhD in History (Pompeu Fabra University, 2010). He is currently a Ramón y Cajal researcher (2020-2025) in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC). He is part of the Alter – Crisis, Otherness and Representation research group.

His research explores 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 published in journals such as Revue de Synthèse (2019) and Economic History of Developing Regions (2020).

He has also researched China-Europe relations with a global history approach focusing on the 20th century. Specifically, he has published articles on issues related to trade, medical knowledge and technology transfers in journals such as Revista de Historia Industrial (2017) and Modern Asian Studies (2019). In 2022, he completed research on 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 [Wandering Doctors. From the International Brigades and the Chinese Revolution to the Cold War] (Editorial Crítica).