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…
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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…
Rewriting the Past: Historical Big Data and a Scholarship of Discovery
School of Humanities and Social ScienceThe Hong Kong University of Science and TechnologyClear Water Bay, KowloonHong Kong S.A.R. 9-10 June 2014 Meeting program as a PDF Organized by Cameron Campbell (HKUST), James Lee (HKUST), and Bin Wong (UCLA) with support from the HKUST-UCLA Collaborative Faculty Grant Program. This two-day meeting brings together researchers who are…
CMGPD Training Guide Video: Comparison of the CMGPD-LN and CMGPD-SC
We have posted a video narrating the portion of the Training Guide devoted to comparison of the CMGPD-LN and CMGPD-SC: For visitors in China, the video is also available at Tudou.
CMGPD Training Guide Video: From the Original Registers to the Database
I recorded a third video today. This narrates the portion of the Training Guide that discusses the process by which we turned the original registers into the CMGPD-LN database. There is some discussion of the original format and content of the data, and the implications for analysis. In particular, there is discussion of the…