We spent the end of December 2019 and beginning of 2020 in Japan. We arrived in Kyoto on New Year’s Eve and spent most of the evening in and around the grounds of the Yasaka Shrine. The original Yasaka Shrine gallery at my website is here.
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New paper on exam degree holders at the end of the Qing
I recently published a paper titled 清末科举停废对士人文官群体的影响——基于微观大数据的宏观新视角 in 社会科学辑刊 on the appointment and subsequent careers of exam degree holders and the overall composition of officialdom between 1900 and 1912, that is at the end of the Qing, and before and after the abolition of the examination system in 1905. By analysis of quarterly CGED-Q data…
English language paper introducing the China Government Employee Dataset-Qing (CGED-Q) in the Journal of Chinese History
Our paper providing an introduction in English to the China Government Employee Dataset-Qing (CGED-Q) is now available at the Journal of Chinese History. The paper is lead-authored by Bijia Chen and is based on the second chapter of her PhD dissertation, which she defended in 2019. It will appear in the July 2020 issue. Here…
Chicago Elevated (L) at night
As part of my re-organization of Chicago photos, I also placed all of my photographs of the L (Elevated) into their own gallery.
Federal Center Plaza at night, Chicago
While sorting my Chicago photographs, I also moved my pictures of the Federal Center Plaza to their own gallery. I especially love the Post Office.
Chicago River at night
I was organizing photos from our visit to Chicago in November 2019, and took all of my photographs of the Chicago River at night and put them into a dedicated gallery. This includes pictures from a variety of different trips to Chicago.
Stacked area graphs in STATA
A few years ago I began looking for STATA commands to produce stacked area graphs that would allow us to look at the evolution of the distribution of a categorical variable (levels of a factor) over time. Applications included looking at the distributions of chushen (出身) of Qing officials over time, or the positions held…
Kanamaru-za, Kotohira, Kagawa, Japan (金毘羅大芝居 or 金丸座)
While in Kotohira in December 2019, we also visited Kanamaru-za, a famous kabuki theater. Apparently it is one of the oldest in Japan. It is still an operating theater and they will put on performances every year. You can also browse the photos in the Kanamaru-za album at my photography website.
Konpira Shrine, Kotohira, Kagawa, Japan (金刀比羅宮 or 金比羅大権現)
In late December 2019, after spending some time in Takamatsu and Shodoshima, we visited Kotohira before heading to Osaka. While in Kotohira we visited the famous Kotohira Shrine. This was at the top of a hill and required a lot of stairs. It was quite lovely and luckily the weather was very nice. To browse…
Angel Road, Tonosho, Shodoshima, Japan エンジェルロード
While we were in Tonosho, we stayed at a hotel that overlooked the Angel Road. This is a sandbar that connected to some small outlying islands that was passable at low tide but flooded at high tide. It’s a lot of fun to see and quite beautiful. Photos of Angel Road are also available in…