Our student Bijia Chen’s lead-authored paper on Banner officials in the Qing civil service between 1900 and 1912 recently appeared in 清史研究 (Studies in Qing History). The paper is titled 清末新政前后旗人与宗室官员的官职变化初探——以《缙绅录》数据库为材料的分析 (The Transition of Banner and Imperial Lineage Officials During the Late Qing Reform Period: Evidence from the Qing Jinshenlu Database) and examines how officials who…
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Paper on interethnic marriage during the Qing designated “Editor’s Choice” by the journal Demographic Research
The paper “Interethnic marriage in Northeast China, 1866-1913” that I co-authored with Lee-Campbell group PhD student Bijia Chen (lead) and Lee-Campbell group PhD graduate Dong Hao (now an Assistant Professor at Peking University) that was published this year in Demographic Research has been named Editor’s Choice by the journal’s editorial board as one of the…
Lee-Campbell Group at the Social Science History Association meetings in Phoenix, November 8-11, 2018
Nine members of the Lee-Campbell group will be presenting a total of 10 papers in 9 different sessions at the Social Science History Association meetings in Phoenix, November 8-11, 2018. There will be papers from all of our projects, including Qing civil service careers, Republican higher education and employment, family and social change in mid-20th…
Ethnic intermarriage in northeast China during the late Qing
Current student Bijia Chen, former student Hao Dong and I recently published a paper in Demographic Research on ethnic intermarriage in Shuangcheng, Heilongjiang, during the late Qing: https://www.demographic-research.org/volumes/vol38/34/ This paper grew out of Bijia’s MPhil thesis. It uses registered ethnicity of males and inferred ethnicity of wives to examine marriage between Han, Manchu, and others…
Demographic Estimate of the Population of the Eight Banners
I just noticed that the final version of the manuscript of my paper with James Lee and Mark Elliott entitled “Demographic estimate of the population of the Eight Banners” is available for download at the Harvard institutional repository. Here is the full citation: Elliott, Mark C., Cameron Campbell, and James Lee. 2016. A Demographic Estimate…
Review of Asian historical demography in the new Handbook of Asian Demography
Satomi Kurosu and I published a survey on Asian historical demography in the new Routledge Handbook of Asian Demography edited by Zhongwei Zhao and Adrian C. Hayes. In our review, we covered work on classic topics in historical demography such as population growth, fertility and mortality, as well as topics of growing interest such as…
New paper in Demography on childhood co-residence with grandparents and later life mortality in 19th century Liaoning using the CMGPD-LN
HKUST Social Science MPhil alumnae Xiaolu (Emma) Zang lead-authored a paper with me on childhood co-residence with grandparents and later life mortality in 19th century Liaoning using the China Multigenerational Panel Database-Liaoning (CMGPD-LN). The paper grew out of work she did while an MPhil student here at HKUST, and exploits the longitudinal depth of the…
Review of multi-generational microdata for social science research
The review of multi-generational microdata for social science research that Xi Song and I wrote for the Annual Review of Sociology has now appeared in the 2017 issue. This comprehensive review introduces the major sources of multi-generational, longitudinal data that can be analyzed in the study of demographic and stratification processes. The emphasis is on…
Isle of Coll, Scotland
We were recently in Scotland, and we visited the Isle of Coll, off of the west coast. We took the ferry from Oban. The Isle of Coll is relatively small, and less than 200 people live there now. It is a lovely place, and well worth visiting. We uploaded some of our pictures of Coll…
Social Science Approaches to the Study of Chinese Society, Part II – starting June 26, 2017
Part II of my Coursera course Social Science Approaches to the Study of Chinese Society will launch June 26: https://www.coursera.org/learn/social-science-research-chinese-society The emphasis is on providing a basic understanding of key elements in the process of designing and conducting a social science research study, with an emphasis on examples related to China. It is not China-specific,…