In April 2023, I gave a talk “Understanding Qing Officialdom Through Big Data” at the Columbia University Weatherhead Institute.
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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.
Short essay on China’s population prospects for 9Dashline
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…
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…