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…
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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,…
Photos from Kyushu, Japan 日本九州照片
We recently had the opportunity to visit Kyushu. We visited Fukuoka, Yufuin, Kitsuki, and Kurokawa. We also made brief side trips to Aso and Dazaifu. Outside of Fukuoka we mainly stayed in ryokan that served fantastic meals, in many cases in our rooms, so I have an unusually large number of food pictures in each…
Changjiang Scholar
I was named a Changjiang Scholar (长江学者) at Central China Normal University (华中师范大学) with the title of Visiting Professor of early modern and contemporary Chinese history (中国近现代史 讲座教授), 2016-2019. This is the highest academic honor conferred on individual scholars by the PRC Ministry of Education. Only a limited number of overseas scholars are recognized every year,…
Kelso Dunes in the Mojave Desert
I sorted and reprocessed some old photos from our visits to the Kelso Dunes in the Mojave Desert back when we lived in LA. The results are up in a gallery in my Smugmug site. As time permits, I hope to continue sorting my old photos and uploading them to share. Below are some sample…