News

2024

Paper in 历史档案 (Historical Archives) by Chen Jun on mid- and low-level Qing military officials (10/20/2024)
Kinship information in the 同年齿录 and related sources completed in August 2024 (8/28/2024)
CGED-Q Meeting at Central China Normal University, July 29, 2024-August 2, 2024 (8/6/2024)
CGED-Q JSL 1760-1798 Draft Release (7/3/2024)
CGED-Q Research Seminar and Training Workshop at Central China Normal University, July 28-August 3, 2024 (5/24/2024)
New paper on the organizational demography of Qing officialdom in 社會科學研究 (4/4/2024)
Workshop on Chinese Historical Databases: Sources, Methods, Prospects held at HKUST, January 11-12, 2024 (1/16/2024)

2023

Paper wins award at 2023 International Conference on Process Mining (10/28/2023)
Working paper on age dynamics of official careers during the Qing (10/4/2023)
New publication using process mining to study the careers of Qing officials in the CGED-Q JSL (9/9/2023)
Training guide for using R to analyze the CGED-Q JSL Public Release (9/7/2023)
New 大数据与中国历史 with translation of my and James Lee’s 40 year career retrospective is now available (6/6/2023)
English version of forthcoming paper on the organizational demography of the Qing civil service (6/3/2023)
Video of podcast interview about my background and career (5/9/2023)
Video of Penn PSC talk “Family Background, Exam Performance, and Career Mobility in the Qing Civil Service, 1830-1912” (5/9/2023)
Video of Wisconsin CDHA talk “Lee-Campbell Group Datasets Public Releases” (5/9/2023)
Video of Columbia Weatherhead Institute talk (5/9/2023)
Video of Wisconsin CDE talk “The Family in Contemporary China: Lessons from the Past” (5/9/2023)
Tutorial for using R to analyze the CGED-Q JSL Public Releases (2/26/2023)

2022

Short essay on China’s population prospects for 9Dashline (12/14/2022)
CGED-Q JSL receives Best Project Award (最佳项目奖 ) at China Digital Humanities 2022 Annual Meeting (12/6/2022)
Video of talk on Qing Officialdom for the HKU Quantitative History series (11/23/2022)
Chinese Translation of Campbell’s and Lee’s Historical Chinese Microdata: 40 Years of Dataset Construction by the Lee-Campbell Research Group (9/13/2022)
Paper on nominative linkage in the CGED-Q in Historical Life Course Studies (9/1/2022)
Xue Qin publishes lead-authored article on officials in the Ministry of Personnel in the late Qing using the CGED-Q (5/31/2022)
Updated figures on time trends in the CGED-Q from our 2020 Journal of Chinese History article (1/30/2022)
CGED-Q Jinshenlu 1850-1864 Public Release now available (1/4/2022)

2021

New pages with code and other resources for using the CGED-Q JSL Public Releases (12/24/2021)
GitHub repository with CMGPD source code (12/1/2021)
Major phase of data entry for the China Government Employee Database-Qing Jinshenlu (CGED-Q JSL) completed (11/25/2021)
Original English version of State Views and Local Views of Population now Open Access (11/2/2021)
Chinese translation of State Views and Local Views of Population published (10/3/2021)
CGED-Q Jinshenlu 1900-1912 Public Release Tabulation and Visualization Platform (8/19/2021)
2020 paper on exam degree holders mentioned in 2020年历史学研究发展报告 (5/1/2021)
New paper in IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (3/24/2021)

2020

China Multi-Generational Panel Dataset Wins a Prize (11/18/2020)
New paper on the appointment and careers of prefects during the Qing using CGED-Q (10/6/2020)
New paper recapping 40 years of ‘big data’ research on population, family and social history by James Lee, Cameron Campbell and collaborators (9/11/2020)
New paper on exam degree holders at the end of the Qing (7/20/2020)
English language paper introducing the China Government Employee Dataset-Qing (CGED-Q) in the Journal of Chinese History (6/17/2020)
Stacked area graphs in STATA (4/7/2020)
Some thoughts on online teaching (3/10/2020)
Paper on assortative marriage in rural Shanxi during the mid-20th century in Research in Social Stratification and Mobility (2/4/2020)

2019

Relocated website (12/11/2019)
PhD student Bijia Chen finishes PhD, begins postdoc at Renmin University Institute of Qing History (11/1/2019)
CGED-Q meeting at the Renmin University Institute of Qing History, October 12-13, 2019 (10/11/2019)
Lee-Campbell Group at the Social Science History Association meetings in Chicago, November 21-24, 2019 (9/9/2019)
CGED-Q 1900-1912 Jinshenlu public release workshop held at Central China Normal University (8/9/2019)
Updated version of CGED-Q 1900-1912 Jinshenlu Public Release available for download (8/9/2019)
Emma Zang wins American Sociological Association Section on Asia/Asian-America “Best Graduate Student Paper” award (6/4/2019)
China Government Employee Database – Qing (CGED-Q) 1900-1912 Jinshenlu records available for download (5/17/2019)
China Government Employee Database-Qing (CGED-Q) 2019 Summer Workshop (4/26/2019)

2018

Paper on Banner officials in the Qing civil service 1900-1912 published in 清史研究 (12/5/2018)
Paper on interethnic marriage during the Qing designated “Editor’s Choice” by the journal Demographic Research (8/30/2018)
Lee-Campbell Group at the Social Science History Association meetings in Phoenix, November 8-11, 2018 (8/30/2018)
Ethnic intermarriage in northeast China during the late Qing (5/1/2018)
Demographic Estimate of the Population of the Eight Banners (5/1/2018)
Review of Asian historical demography in the new Handbook of Asian Demography (3/8/2018)
New paper in Demography on childhood co-residence with grandparents and later life mortality in 19th century Liaoning using the CMGPD-LN (3/8/2018)

2017

Review of multi-generational microdata for social science research (8/4/2017)
Social Science Approaches to the Study of Chinese Society, Part II – starting June 26, 2017 (6/7/2017)
Changjiang Scholar (4/13/2017)
New web page for our undergraduate program, Quantitative Social Analysis (3/3/2017)
Promotion video for my Coursera Course (3/3/2017)

2016

The conscience of an ex-conservative (10/15/2016)
Lee-Campbell group at Social Science History Association meetings, November 17-20, 2016, Chicago, IL (9/26/2016)
Consolidating Chinese character variants in preparation for nominative linkage (7/27/2016)

2015

Lee-Campbell group at the Social Science History Association, Baltimore, MD, November 2015 (11/3/2015)
China Multigenerational Panel Datasets Workshop, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, January 6-8, 2016. (8/10/2015)

2014

Lee-Campbell group at the American Sociological Association meetings, San Francisco, August 2014 (8/15/2014)
CMGPD-SC now available at ICPSR! (7/28/2014)
Studies that receive attention in the media (6/19/2014)
Rewriting the Past: Historical Big Data and a Scholarship of Discovery (6/3/2014)
CMGPD Training Guide Video: Comparison of the CMGPD-LN and CMGPD-SC (5/29/2014)
CMGPD Training Guide Video: From the Original Registers to the Database (5/21/2014)
CMGPD Training Guide Video: Strengths and Weaknesses of the CMGPD-LN (5/20/2014)
CMGPD Training Guide Video: The CMGPD and Other Sources (5/19/2014)
Summer 2014 China Multigenerational Panel Dataset Workshop at SJTU (English announcement) (3/11/2014)
Errata from Fate and Fortune (2/25/2014)

2013

Discussion of One Child Policy on RTHK Radio 3 (12/5/2013)
English proficiency and college admissions in China (11/7/2013)
Reflecting on my time as an undergraduate at Caltech 反思我加州理工學院讀本科經歷 (9/30/2013)
Presentations related to East Asian historical demography at IUSSP 2013 Busan (8/20/2013)
The future of marriage in China (8/19/2013)
More data doesn’t automatically lead to deeper understanding… (6/2/2013)
Opening old Excel files in STATA 12 (5/11/2013)
First publication using the CMGPD-LN public release! (4/19/2013)
Reflections on the NYT article on education in China (2/19/2013)

2012

Meritocracy in Imperial China: a reflection on Mark Elliott’s Op-Ed in the New York Times (11/17/2012)
East Asia themed sessions at the SSHA 2012 (10/29/2012)
Relocated my blog (10/15/2012)
How much do we learn about public opinion in China from Weibo posts? (9/27/2012)
Hurray for the ENCODE project (9/7/2012)
Slides introducing use of STATA to organize and analyze CMGPD-LN data (9/3/2012)
Online education and higher education (5/13/2012)
Apparently I’m a member of the California School (加州学派) (3/23/2012)
Social Mobility and Demographic Behaviour: A Long-Term Perspective (3/9/2012)
A modest proposal for facilitating data-driven choices of college and majorent choice of colleges and majors to be data-driven (1/29/2012)
Our paper on trends in the social origins of students at elite Chinese universities (1/21/2012)