Unit: Culture, creativity, social justice, critical thinking, humanities

Research group: ALTER Crisis, Otherness and representation

Doctor by the Universitat Pompeu Fabra with the thesis Shanghai y la industrialización algodonera en China el caso de la empresa Dafeng (大丰). 2010. Supervised by Dr. Maria Dolors Folch Fornesa.

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).