Author: Cameron Campbell
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New Online Search Function for Records of Officials in the 缙绅录 Made Publicly Accessible
We’ve made it possible to search the database of records for Qing officials that we are constructing from the 缙绅录, which was a sort of personnel directory published every three months (!) during the Qing, and listed approximately 13,000-15,000 officials each time, depending on the edition. We also have some editions of 中樞備覽 which list…
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Review Article by Song and Campbell on Multi-generational Data for Social Science Research Published in Annual Review of Sociology
Xi Song and Cameron Campbell’s review article of multi-generational microdata for social science research published in the Annual Review of Sociology is now available as a preview, with publication scheduled for this summer: http://www.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev-soc-073014-112157 This comprehensive review introduces the major sources of multi-generational, longitudinal data that can be analyzed in the study of demographic and…
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Computer Scientists Use CMGPD to Develop Visualization Tools for Genealogical Data
Qu Huamin (HKUST Computer Science) and collaborators have been using the China Multigenerational Panel Dataset-Liaoning to test and showcase visualization tools they have been developing for multidimensional genealogical data. Multidimensional refers to the fact that the genealogical data not only identify ancestors and kin, but describe additional characteristics. They recently published a paper describing these…
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Cameron Campbell named as Changjiang Scholar at Central China Normal University
Cameron Campbell was named a Changjiang Scholar (长江学者) at Central China Normal University (华中师范大学) with the title of Visiting Professor of early modern and contemporary Chinese history (中国近现代史 讲座教授), 2016-2019. This is the highest academic honor conferred on individual scholars by the PRC Ministry of Education. Only a limited number of overseas scholars are recognized every…
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New Article by Hao Dong, James Lee, and Co-authors Published in Evolution and Human Biology
Hao Dong and James Lee, along with their co-authors Satomi Kurosu, Matteo Manfredini, and Wenshan Yang, published their article “Kin and birth order effects on male child mortality: three East Asian populations, 1716–1945” in the March 2017 issue of Evolution and Human Biology. Using data from several historical East Asian populations, including Taiwan, the CMGPD-LN dataset for northeast…
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First publication on our China Government Employee Database – Qing (CGED-Q)
Beginning in late 2014, with support from the Hong Kong Research Grant Council, we have been constructing a database of Qing officialdom based on the quarterly editions of the 缙绅录. We recently published an article in 清史研究 introducing this project and presenting some preliminary results. We show that during the Qing there were three entry ways to…
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Liang Chen introduces the work of the Lee-Campbell group at a workshop at Harvard
Liang Chen introduced the work of our group at a recent workshop at Harvard: http://projects.iq.harvard.edu/chinesecbdb/梁晨「量化歷史數據庫構建與研究──李-康研究團隊介紹」演講紀要 Article in Chinese
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Lee-Campbell group at Social Science History Association meetings, November 17-20, 2016, Chicago, IL
Current and former members of our research group will be presenting a total of 11 papers at SSHA in November. Additionally, James Lee will be a panelist on a book session, and Shuang Chen will be a discussant. See below for a complete list of our presentations. Names of group members are in bold. Thursday,…
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Welcome to the new Lee-Campbell group website!
We’ve set up this website to introduce the work of the Lee-Campbell Research group, provide updates, and give members an opportunity to introduce themselves. We’ll be adding profiles for all the members of our research group, and encouraging them to blog about their work and their experience as students and now faculty.