Guanlan Printmaking Village (观澜版画村) is a traditional Hakka village that has been turned into a center for the preservation and development of traditional printmaking. The historic buildings are lovely, and have been preserved nicely, so it is quite pleasant to walk around. There are some shops selling prints. We took a bus from Luo Wu,…
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Pictures from the Zumiao (祖廟) in Foshan (佛山).
This summer we visited the Zumiao (祖廟) in Foshan (佛山). It was fairly easy to get to. Basically a long subway ride from Guangzhou. The whole gallery of Zumiao photos in Foshan is here. Here are some samples: Save
Consolidating Chinese character variants in preparation for nominative linkage
While carrying out nominative linkage of records of individuals in different editions of a database we are constructing, we ran into three types of problems: Different variants of the same character were used when entering the same individual’s surname or given named in different editions, preventing a link from being made. This was sometimes the…
Pictures from Xidi, Lucun, and Hongcun in Huangshan, Anhui (安徽黄山的西递村，廬村，宏村)
We recently spent a day in the Huangshan area in Anhui. We didn’t have an opportunity to see Huangshan itself. We visited three historic villages: Xidi, Lucun, Hongcun (西递，廬村，宏村). Unfortunately, we only had a few hours each for these lovely and well-preserved villages. Nonetheless, they’re fascinating. I made up a gallery with a selection of…
Lee-Campbell group at the Social Science History Association, Baltimore, MD, November 2015
We’ll be at the Social Science History Association meetings in Baltimore, MD November 12-14, 2015. Below are the sessions in which members of the Lee-Campbell research group are involved in some way or another. We have two presentations of papers co-authored with graduate students, I will be serving as a discussant for another session, and…
China Multigenerational Panel Datasets Workshop, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, January 6-8, 2016.
We are pleased to announce a workshop to be held January 6-8, 2016 to introduce the China Multigenerational Panel Datasets (CMGPD). These are major resources for the study of demography, stratification, and family. The workshop will feature the China Multigenerational Panel Dataset-Shuangcheng (CMGPD-SC), the release of which is nearing completion, as well as the previously released…
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Lee-Campbell group at the American Sociological Association meetings, San Francisco, August 2014
I am happy to report that several members of the Lee-Campbell research group will be presenting at the American Sociological Association meetings in San Francisco over the next few days. Three students are presenting papers in regular sessions, and we have a thematic session devoted to the Eurasia Project with distinguished panelists on Monday morning….
CMGPD-SC now available at ICPSR!
I am pleased to report that the China Multigenerational Panel Dataset-Shuangcheng is now available for download at ICPSR: http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/ICPSR/studies/35292 We would like to thank everyone who worked with the draft versions of the release and documentation and reported problems. If you have been working with a draft version of the release downloaded from my own…
Studies that receive attention in the media
Recently I have started teaching research design classes at the undergraduate and graduate levels. By research design, I mean basic elements of study design and analysis such as translating concepts into measures and theories into hypotheses, sampling, questionnaire design, and experimental and quasi-experimental designs, causal inference, and so forth. This has been a new experience…