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Promotion video for my Coursera Course
The promo video for my Coursera course Social Science Approaches to the Study of Chinese Society is now up. Enjoy!
Arthur’s Seat in Edinburgh, on a clear winter day
We spent a day hiking around Arthur’s Seat while we were in Edinburgh. The weather was lovely. The pictures from our hike around Arthur’s Seat are here. Here are some highlights:
Pitlochry, Scotland
Over Christmas break, we were in Edinburgh. We made a side trip to beautiful Pitlochry up in the highlands. The highlight was a hike up the Bealach trail, then a diversion to the base of Ben Vrackie trail and around Loch a’Choire, down to Killiecrankie, and then along the river back to Pitlochry. The photos…
The conscience of an ex-conservative
I moved this back here from Medium since I ended up not visiting that site very often. Watching the slow-motion train wreck that is the Republican Party, the ending of the Lord of the Flies comes to mind. I feel like the naval officer who comes upon Ralph at the very end, and is shocked…
Lee-Campbell group at Social Science History Association meetings, November 17-20, 2016, Chicago, IL
Current and former members of our research group will be presenting a total of 11 papers at SSHA in November. Additionally, James Lee will be a panelist on a book session, and Shuang Chen will be a discussant. See below for a complete list of our presentations. Names of group members are in bold. Thursday,…
New photos from Pentland Hills, Edinburgh
I was recently in Edinburgh. On one day that I had free, we went for a hike in the beautiful Pentland Hills. We walked from Currie to Swanston. After entering from Currie, we dog-legged to the Harlaw House Visitor Centre, where we had a nice cup of tea at the Vanilla Pod Cafe. We would…
Guanlan Printmaking Village (观澜版画村)
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,…
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…