Mark Elliott, a Qing (1644-1911) historian at Harvard, achieved something incredible: he published an Op-Ed piece in the New York Times devoted almost entirely to processes of elite recruitment in imperial Chinese history. He shared his views on the question of whether the selection of officials in Qing China was meritocratic, and introduces readers to excellent…
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East Asia themed sessions at the SSHA 2012
There are three sessions focused on East Asia at SSHA this November organized under the auspices of the Family/Demography network. There is a fourth session organized under the auspices of the Macro-historical Dynamics. I have listed them below as a convenience for anyone looking for sessions focused on East Asia. I am just listing the…
Relocated my blog
I relocated my blog from Google’s Blogger to WordPress. The transition was pretty smooth. However, I didn’t see an easy way to have WordPress Permalinks for blog entries match the ones at Blogger. Blogger caps URL length, thus truncates the title of the blog entry in the URL if it is too long. Wordpress doesn’t,…
How much do we learn about public opinion in China from Weibo posts?
It seems like every piece of reporting on China these days cites as evidence of the import of some event some kind of reference to a particular Weibo post, usually one that included a photo or video of an incident, and then a count of how many times it was forwarded or commented on. And…
Hurray for the ENCODE project
I can’t help but thinking that the results of ENCODE and perhaps the recent analysis of the human biome in the long run will turn out to be much, much more significant than the sequencing of the human genome a few years back, because it will shed light on the processes downstream from the genes…
Slides introducing use of STATA to organize and analyze CMGPD-LN data
UPDATE: This post is out of date. The most recent CMGPD-LN Documentation is available at the ICPSR study site: http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/DSDR/studies/27063. The slides referred to here have been added to the Training Guide available there (2016 October 18). I have posted the slides from my methodological lectures at the CMGPD short course that I taught…
2012 China Multigenerational Panel Data Summer Class
China Multigenerational Panel Data (CMGPD) 2012 Summer Training Workshop Institute on the History and Society of Northeast ChinaSchool of the Humanities Shanghai Jiaotong UniversityShanghai, China July 6, 2012 – July 20, 2012 Subject to revision. Please check back on a regular basis for changes. POLICIES Attendance at all lectures and recitation sections is required. Unexcused…
Online education and higher education
I recently attended a meeting at which the subject of online education came up. Indeed, over the past few months, the possible impact of online education on higher education has come up a number of times in conversation. There seems to be a widespread feeling that as the technology for online education improves, it will…
Apparently I’m a member of the California School (加州学派)
In a fit of narcissism, I was searching for my name in Chinese. I was pleased to find a few recent scholarly pieces in China that list me as a member of the ‘California school’ (加州学派) of economic and social historians who work on China. I guess if I am to be listed as the…
Social Mobility and Demographic Behaviour: A Long-Term Perspective
The complete collection of papers from the December 2008 IUSSP Scientific Panel on Historical Demography seminar “Social Mobility and Demographic Behaviour: A Long-term Perspective” that Martin Dribe, Jan Van Bavel, and I organized at the UCLA California Center for Population Research (CCPR) is now available as a special collection at Demographic Research: http://www.demographic-research.org/special/10/ The meeting received…