I recorded another narration from the CMGPD Training Guide. This one is for the section that discusses the strengths and weaknesses of the CMGPD-LN. The discussion of strengths focuses on features of the CMGPD-LN that make it unique among sources for the study of historical demography. The discussion of weaknesses highlights some areas where caution…
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CMGPD Training Guide Video: The CMGPD and Other Sources
I have begun recording and uploading narrated modules from the CMGPD Training Guide. This is my first effort. This is from the section of the Training Guide that introduces the CMGPD and compares it to other sources commonly used in the study of historical demography. Visitors in China may find it more convenient to view…
Summer 2014 China Multigenerational Panel Dataset Workshop at SJTU (English announcement)
The 4th China Multigenerational Panel Dataset Workshop Shanghai Jiaotong University, Minhang Campus Shanghai, China July 14-25, 2014 中文版 The Center for the History and Society of Northeast China at the Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Humanities will hold its 4th summer China Multigenerational Panel Data workshop from July 14 to July 25. The workshop will…
Errata from Fate and Fortune
Our book Fate and Fortune in Rural China: Social Organization and Population Behavior in Liaoning 1774-1873 appeared nearly twenty years ago. For some time, we have meant to collect and put in one place the errata that have been discovered over the years. There aren’t that many, thankfully, but it’s nice to list them all…
Discussion of One Child Policy on RTHK Radio 3
Earlier this week, I participated in a panel discussion on the future of the One Child Policy on the show Backchat on RTHK Radio 3. RTHK is public radio here in HK, and Radio 3 is there English language service. The panelists were Stuart Basten at Oxford, Kerry Brown at the University of Sydney, Shaun…
English proficiency and college admissions in China
I was interested and somewhat pleased to see that recently, there has been some discussion of lowering or eliminating the weight attached to English scores in college entrance exams in China. The Wall Street Journal China Real Time Report blog has a nice discussion of what has been happening: http://blogs.wsj.com/chinarealtime/2013/11/07/learning-english-may-be-losing-its-luster-in-china/ Much of the commentary I…
Reflecting on my time as an undergraduate at Caltech 反思我加州理工學院讀本科經歷
Why I wrote this I recently began to receive reminders about the Caltech Reunion Weekend scheduled for May 15-18, 2014. I would like to attend, but it would require a special trip back from Hong Kong. We’ll see. Combined with my involvement with undergraduate education for the last 17 years or so at UCLA and…
Presentations related to East Asian historical demography at IUSSP 2013 Busan
I’m trying to put together a list of sessions that include presentations focused on East Asian historical demography at the IUSSP meetings in Busan, South Korea, August 26 to September 31, 2013. Below is what I have found so far, copied and pasted from the IUSSP online programme. If the session is focused on East…
The future of marriage in China
Reading Leta Hong Fincher’s CNN piece on changes in women’s attitudes about marriage in China reminded me of a prediction that I have been making for the past two or three years to anyone who will listen: Within a decade, marriage patterns in mainland China will resemble those everywhere else in East Asia, with high…
More data doesn’t automatically lead to deeper understanding…
Finally, someone has very publicly thrown cold water on the wild claims made for the potential of ‘big data’. I like the title: “Why Big Data is Not Truth.” It seems like every week now, I hear or read about someone in the news, typically an engineer or a computer scientist but very rarely a social…