In fall 2019, while I was attending a meeting in France, I was interviewed for a podcast about my background and career. In April 2021, the interview was put up on Youtube.
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Video of Penn PSC talk “Family Background, Exam Performance, and Career Mobility in the Qing Civil Service, 1830-1912”
A video of my December 2020 talk “Family Background, Exam Performance, and Career Mobility in the Qing Civil Service, 1830-1912” at the University of Pennsylvania Population Studies Center is available on Youtube.
Video of Wisconsin CDHA talk “Lee-Campbell Group Datasets Public Releases”
In March 2023 I gave a talk at Wisconsin Centre for the Demography of Health and Aging introducing the datasets made public by the Lee-Campbell Group.
Video of Columbia Weatherhead Institute talk
In April 2023, I gave a talk “Understanding Qing Officialdom Through Big Data” at the Columbia University Weatherhead Institute.
Video of Wisconsin CDE talk “The Family in Contemporary China: Lessons from the Past”
Video from my talk “The Family in Contemporary China: Lessons from the Past” at the University of Wisconsin Center for Demography and Ecology in March 2023 is available on Youtube.
Tutorial for using R to analyze the CGED-Q JSL Public Releases
Chen Jun, my MA student at Central China Normal University, has shared slides and sample code he produced to help anyone planning to use R to analyze the CGED-Q JSL public releases. The materials are all in Chinese. They introduce how to import the public data into R, create and transform variables, process strings to…
Point Reyes National Seashore
We recently visited Point Reyes National Seashore. There were lots of beautiful views of the beaches, as well as lots of elephant seals and pelicans. The full gallery of my Point Reyes photos is at my photography website.
Portola Redwoods State Park
We recently had an opportunity to visit Portola Redwoods State Park. Many of the bridges were closed, and some trails were impassable because of slides, so we didn’t get to explore as much as we would have liked. The full Portola Redwoods State Park gallery is at my Smugmug site.
Big Basin Redwoods State Park
I created a new gallery of photos from recent our visit to Big Basin Redwoods State Park. I hope we have a chance to return. The forest there was hit by a fire a few years ago and is in the process of recovery.
Ravenswood Open Space Preserve
I created a new gallery with photos of the Ravenswood Open Space Preserve. Most of the photos are of birds, especially waders, but also small birds like finches perched on fences.