Lee-Campbell Group at the Social Science History Association Meeting in Chicago, November 20-23, 2025

Six members of the Lee-Campbell group will be presenting four papers in four sessions at the Social Science History Association meetings in Chicago. Below is a schedule based on the SSHA program.

Session 57
Friday, November 21, 8:00 AM – 9:45 AM
LaSalle 5 – 7th Floor
Migrant Lives at the Margins

Migration/Immigration

3. Kin Migration Patterns in Rural China, 1920s-1960s • Matthew Noellert*, Hitotsubashi University



Session 155
Saturday, November 22, 10:00 AM – 11:45 AM
Burnham 4 – 7th Floor

Elites, Bureaucracy, and State Formation
States, Politics and Society

1. The Career Effects of Exceptional Promotion: Evidence from the Qing Local Civil Official System (1830– 1910) • Yueran Hou*, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology; Cameron Campbell, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology



Session 196
Saturday, November 22, 3:15 PM – 5:00 PM
Dearborn 2-7 th Floor
Linking and Data Quality

Data Infrastructure

4. A Machine Learning Approach to Record Linkage of Chinese Historical Data • Yue Yu*, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology; Cameron Campbell, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology



Session 210
Sunday, November 23, 8:00 AM – 9:45 AM
Clark 5-7th Floor
Drivers and Consequences of Advantage and Disadvantage
Demography

Chair: Peter Gunn, Independent Scholar
Discussant: Sam Hwang, University of British Columbia

1. Family Backgrounds of Officials in the Late Qing (1830-1911) and Beiyang (1911-1924) • Cameron Campbell*, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology; Shengbin Wei, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology; Qin Xue, Central China Normal University