{"id":1107,"date":"2023-09-11T19:44:45","date_gmt":"2023-09-11T19:44:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/ksi\/?page_id=1107"},"modified":"2025-03-17T22:25:49","modified_gmt":"2025-03-17T22:25:49","slug":"adam-frost","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/ksi\/adam-frost\/","title":{"rendered":"Adam Frost"},"content":{"rendered":"\n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--spotlight \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--spotlight\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n<div class=\"text-image-container\">\n  <div class=\"text-container\">\n\n              \n<div class=\"f--field f--eyebrow\">\n\n    \n  <span>U.S.-Asia GSP Fellow 2020-2021<\/span>\n\n\n<\/div>\n    \n              \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  <p>Adam Frost is a PhD candidate at Harvard University in the department of History and East Asian Languages, who researches the history of entrepreneurship in modern China. His dissertation, \u201cSpeculators and Profiteers: Capitalism and Entrepreneurship in Socialist China (1957-1980),\u201d uses unconventional historical methods and sources to explore the entrepreneurial origins of China\u2019s economic transformation. Adam received his BA and MA from Harvard University and was a visiting scholar at Fudan University. His research has been supported by the Institution of International Education (Fulbright), the Social Science Research Council, the US Department of Education (FLAS Grant), Harvard Business School, Harvard\u2019s Fairbank and Asia Centers, the Institute of Humane Studies, and the Mercatus Institute at George Mason. 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