After our return to Hong Kong in August 2021, we were quarantined for three weeks. We spent time in the Nina Hotel Island South in Wong Chuk Hang. Occasionally I took pictures from our room. Some of them turned out well. The Wong Chuk Hang gallery is here. And here are the pictures:
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Maha’ulepu Heritage Trail, Kauai
When we were in Kauai in August 2021, we took a walk along the spectacular Maha’ulepu Heritage Trail. The full Maha’ulepu Heritage Trail gallery is here. Here are the photos:
Allerton Garden, Kauai, Hawaii
In August 2021, we were on Kauai in Hawaii for a wedding. We also visited the beautiful Allerton Garden. It was spectacular. If you are ever in Kauai, it is definitely worth a trip. The full Allerton Garden gallery is here. Many scenes from the TV series Fantasy Island were filmed at the Allerton Garden….
Stanford Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences Fellowship, 2022-23
I have been invited as a Fellow of the Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford for the academic year 2022-2023. Here is the announcement at their website. I am looking forward very much to the opportunity not only to advance work my own research projects, but to interact with and learn…
Xue Qin publishes lead-authored article on officials in the Ministry of Personnel in the late Qing using the CGED-Q
My Central China Normal University School of History and Culture PhD student Xue Qin (co-advisor Fu Haiyan) published a lead-authored article on officials in the Ministry of Personnel in the late Qing that uses the CGED-Q. I was second author. The title of the article is 清季改革视阈下吏部官员群体的人事递嬗与结构变迁(1898—1911）——以《缙绅录》数据库为中心 Change and Constancy: The Personnel Evolution and Structural…
Mastodon account
I created an account at Mastodon: @cameron@camerondcampbell.masto.host. If you already have an account there, follow me. Right now I post there occasionally. So far I like Mastodon. It resolves what I regard as the main problems with Twitter: the ads, the clutter, and the incessant effort to suggest to topics or accounts to follow. The…
Updated figures on time trends in the CGED-Q from our 2020 Journal of Chinese History article
In 2020, we published a paper lead-authored by Bijia Chen in the Journal of Chinese History that introduced the CGED-Q. At the time, we were still entering data. We finally concluded entry of all the 縉紳錄 editions available to us late in 2021. Here we present updated versions of the figures in the JCH paper…
CGED-Q Jinshenlu 1850-1864 Public Release now available
We just made available for download the China Government Employee Database-Qing (CGED-Q) Jinshenlu 1850-1864 Public Release. This release consists of 341,092 quarterly records of 13,000-14,000 civil service posts for the period 1850 to 1864. We chose this as the next period for a release since it includes the Taiping Rebellion, a major event in 19th…
New pages with code and other resources for using the CGED-Q JSL Public Releases
I created a set of pages here at my site to share resources to help users of the CGED-Q JSL Public Releases. These will include tables for re-categorizing variables, code snippets to help with data cleaning, and other materials. These are not part of the official releases, and may evolve over time.
GitHub repository with CMGPD source code
I have created a new GitHub repository with STATA code that underpins the China Multigenerational Panel Datasets Liaoning and Shuangcheng, starting from reading in the files entered in Excel by the coders, to record linkage and creation of variables for analysis, to production of extracts for ICPSR. https://github.com/CameronDCampbell/China-Multigenerational-Panel-Dataset