The 4th edition of the annual 大数据与中国历史 (Big Data and Chinese History), edited by Fu Haiyan at Central China Normal University, is out now from 社会科学文献出版社 (Social Science Documents Publishing House). It includes a Chinese translation of my and James Lee’s career retrospective, summarizing our work over the last four decades constructing and analyzing historical…
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English version of forthcoming paper on the organizational demography of the Qing civil service
社會科學研究 (Social Science Research) published by the Sichuan Academy of Social Science has accepted our paper “The Organizational Demography of the Qing Civil Service, 1830-1911” and scheduled it for publication in 2024. In the meantime, they have given permission for us to share the English language version. Here is the PDF at Soc ArXiv: The…
Video of podcast interview about my background and career
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.
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.