I wrote a short piece for 9Dashline reflecting on the implications of the projections for China in the UN World Population Prospects 2022: https://www.9dashline.com/article/chinas-population-prospects-a-historical-perspective China’s population will begin to decline in size, if it hasn’t done so already, and it will continue to grow older. In the piece, I discuss lessons from historical studies of…
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On Mastodon now, and no longer using Twitter
Update: I also closed my Mastodon account and moved to Bluesky. I’m leaving this up because of the discussion of why I left Twitter. I deactivated my Twitter account campbell_kang. If you see any account on Twitter active after December 14, 2022 that claims to be mine, it’s fake. I am now on Mastodon: https://camerondcampbell.masto.host/@cameron…
CGED-Q JSL receives Best Project Award (最佳项目奖 ) at China Digital Humanities 2022 Annual Meeting
We are pleased to report that the China Government Employee-Qing (CGED-Q) Jinshenlu (JSL) dataset was one of four to receive the Best Project Award (最佳项目奖 ) at the China Digital Humanities 2022 Annual Meeting held at Renmin University on November 26 and 27. For more information about the award, please see the final report of…
Video of talk on Qing Officialdom for the HKU Quantitative History series
In November 2022 I gave a talk for the Hong Kong University Quantitative History workshop series sharing results on Qing officialdom from our analysis of the CGED-Q JSL. I’m sharing it here in case anyone is interested, and missed the original talk.
Baylands Nature Preserve
We like going to the Baylands Nature Preserve. There are a lot of waterfowl there, and lots of opportunities to take pictures of them. The full Baylands Nature Preserve gallery at my Smugmug site is here.
Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences
Sometimes I bring my camera to the office at CASBS and take pictures of the wildlife. Mostly it is turkeys, squirrels, woodpeckers, lizards, and deer. There are lots of other creatures, like small birds, but they tend to move too quickly for me. You can also view the full gallery of CASBS photos at my…
Chinese Translation of Campbell’s and Lee’s Historical Chinese Microdata: 40 Years of Dataset Construction by the Lee-Campbell Research Group
A Chinese translation of my and James Lee’s Historical Life Course Studies paper “Historical Chinese Microdata. 40 Years of Dataset Construction by the Lee-Campbell Research Group” is forthcoming in a volume of Big Data and the Study of Chinese History 大数据与中国历史研究. The title of the translation is 中国历史量化微观大数据：李中清-康文林团队40年学术回顾. Pending the appearance of the volume, we…
Aix-en-Provence at night
We spent summer 2022 in Aix-en-Provence. We took walks in the evening, before and after sunset. Here are the pictures from after sunset. Here is the full gallery of Aix-en-Provence night photos at my Smugmug site.
Paper on nominative linkage in the CGED-Q in Historical Life Course Studies
Our paper “Nominative Linkage of Records of Officials in the China Government Employee Dataset-Qing (CGED-Q)” which shares our experience with nominative linkage in the CGED-Q has been published at Historical Life Course Studies. We hope it will be useful to others who are engaged in large-scale, automated nominative linkage (disambiguation) of individuals in historical Chinese-language…
Sunset seen from Devil’s Peak
Last fall we went to Devil’s Peak 魔鬼山 near Sam Ka Tsuen and Yau Tong to see the sunset. The complete Devil’s Peak gallery is here. Here are photos: