Ten members of the Lee-Campbell group presented four papers and participated as co-authors in one paper presented by others in four sessions at the Social Science History Association meetings in Washington DC this November. Group members also participated in two Author-Meets-Critics sessions. Below is a schedule based on the SSHA program.
Thursday, November 16 / 3:15 PM – 5:00 PM
Session 54
Author Meets Critics: Power for a Price by Lawrence Zhang
Yellowstone (2nd Floor)
Chair: Cameron Campbell, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Discussant: Shuang Chen, University of Iowa
1. Power for a Price: The Purchase of Official Appointments in Qing China • Lawrence Zhang, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.
Thursday, November 16 / 3:15 PM – 5:00 PM
Session 56
Approaches to Studying Migration in Historical US and Japan
Congressional B (Lobby Level)
1. Migration and Fertility in Early Modern Northeastern Japan. Satomi Kurosu, Reitaku University; Hao Dong, Peking University; Miyuki Takahashi, Rissho University
Saturday, November 18 / 3:15 PM – 5:00 PM
Session 199
Elite Networks in East and West in the 19th and 20th Centuries
Glacier (2nd Floor)
Chair: Cameron Campbell, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
1. Who Ruled China in the 19th Century? Political and Military Elites in the Late Qing • Cameron Campbell, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.
4. From the Rest to the Best: China’s Second Silent Revolution • David Y. Zuo, Nanjing University; James Z. Lee, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology;Chen Liang, Nanjing University; Bamboo Yunzhu Ren, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.
Sunday, November 19 / 8:00 AM –9:45 AM
Session 214
Author Meets Critic: Public Interest and State Legitimation: Early Modern England, Japan, and China (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,2023) by Wenkai He
Glacier (2nd Floor)
Chair: James Lee, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Sunday, November 19 / 8:00 AM – 9:45 AM
Session 218
Intergenerational and Intragenerational Social Mobility Using Historical Data
Congressional B (Lobby Level)
2. The Impact of Crises on the Careers of County Magistrates in China during the Qing, 1830 to 1912 •Cameron Campbell, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology; Shuaiqi Gao, Central China Normal University.
3. Patterns of Occupational and Spatial Mobility in 1940s-1960s Rural China • Matthew Noellert, Hitotsubashi University; Xiangning Li, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.
Sunday, November 19 / 10:00 AM – 11:45 AM
Session 230
The Ideology and Governance of the Late Chinese Empire
Clark 5 (Floor 7)
1. Managing Land and Producing Citizens: State Building and Identity Formation in Manchuria, 1900-1920 • Shuang Chen, University of Iowa.