Author: Shengbin WEI

New article by Hu Cunlu using CGED-Q in 近代史研究

We were delighted to learn that Hu Cunlu (胡存璐), an assistant professor at Central China Normal University who recently completed her PhD at Renmin University, has just published an article “清代山西知县空间流动的量化分析 (A Quantitative Analysis of Spatial Mobility of County Magistrates in Shanxi in Qing Dynasty)” in 近代史研究 (Modern Chinese History Studies). The article makes use of China Government Employee Database-Qing Jinshenlu 中国历史官员数据库–清代缙绅录 (CGED-Q JSL) that we shared with her. She also makes use of county gazetteer data collected by Renmin University. We hope this article along with other recent publications using the CGED-Q will inspire others to use the public CGED-Q, or CGED-Q data that we have shared with them.

Here is the link to the article: https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/YwAUMJZfVz6DtwBKx-l2Dw

If you publish an article that makes use of the CGED-Q, please let us know so we can help publicize it!

Lee-Campbell Group at the Social Science History Association Meetings in Toronto, October 31-November 3, 2024

Ten members of the Lee-Campbell group will be presenting seven papers and participating as co-authors in one paper presented by others in four sessions at the Social Science History Association meetings in Toronto. Group members will be also participating in an Author-Meets-Critics session. Below is a schedule based on the SSHA program.

Thursday, October 31, 10:00 AM – 11:45 AM
Session 16
Education, Knowledge, and Science in China 1920-2020

Education, Knowledge, and Science

1. Regional Human Capital Development in China: Comparing 75,000 Elite University Students in Beijing, Guangzhou, and Shanghai, 1912-1952. Haozhe Han, Shanghai Jiao Tong University

2. Social Origins, Education, and Impact of 1700 China-U.S. Physics and Related Science Disciplines PhD Students to the USA, 1979-1989. James Z. Lee, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology; Shengbin Wei, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology; Dongqian Liu, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

3. Social Origins, Education, and Impact of 1400 Chinese Boxer Indemnity Scholarship Students to the USA, 1909-1949. Chen Liang, Nanjing University; Yueran Hou, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

4. Comparing Medicine and Engineering: The Education and Employment of 50,000 Medical Doctors and Engineers in China, 1905-1950. Bamboo Ren, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology


Friday, November 1, 10:00 AM – 11:45 AM
Session 78
Databases for the Quantitative History of China

Data Infrastructure

Chair: Li Ji, University of Iowa

2. Databases for the Study of Qing (1644-1911) Political and Educational Elites. Cameron Campbell, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

3. Databases for the Study of Educational, Professional, and Political Elites in the Republican China (1911-1949). James Z. Lee, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology; Bamboo Ren, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Friday, November 1, 3:45 PM – 5:30 PM
Session 121
Power Dynamics: Patriarchy, Slaveholding, and Class Struggles

Family Demography

3. Never Forget the Struggle over Class: An Introduction to the China Rural Revolution Dataset – Siqing. Matthew Noellert, Hitotsubashi University

Saturday, November 2, 1:15 PM – 3:00 PM
Session 165
Determinants of Mortality: Disease, Disability, and Climate Impacts

Family Demography

2. Disability, Disease, and Mortality in Northeast China, 1749-1909. Ruijie Liu, Peking University; Hao Dong, Peking University; Cameron Campbell, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology; James Z. Lee, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Saturday, November 2, 1:15 PM – 3:00 PM
Session 176
Author Meets Critic: At the Frontier of God’s Empire: A Missionary Odyssey in Modern China by Ji Li

Religion

Discussant: James Lee, Hong Kong University of Science and Techonology



Emma Zang and James Lee Publish an Article in Sociology on Family Background and Students’ Fields of Study

An article by Emma Zang, Yining Milly Yang, and James Lee on how the family background affects students’ fields of study across different historical periods in China has been published in Sociology. Emma Zang was one of our group alumni who earned her MPhil in Social Science from HKUST in 2014 and is now an assistant professor at Yale University. Congratulations to Emma Zang and James Lee!

Here is the abstract of the article:

How family background affects students’ fields of study across different historical periods in China is not well studied. Post 1949, China explicitly prioritized specific industrial sectors when allocating resources, creating an especially strong reason to expect that the industrial sector in which a parent was employed might strongly influence a child’s educational outcomes and career aspirations. Using data from the school registration records of 51,801 students who entered an elite regional university from 1952 through 2002, this study is the first to examine the role of parents’ industrial sectors in predicting children’s fields of study and the temporal patterns of this association. Applying multinomial logistic regression and the log-multiplicative layer effect model, we found that parents’ industrial sectors predicted children’s fields of study independent of parents’ broad categories of occupation. The strength of the association was particularly strong during the Cultural Revolution and post-market transition periods.

Here is the link to the full text:

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00380385241242044.

Zang, E., Yang, Y. M., & Lee, J. Z. (2024). Parents’ Industrial Sectors and Fields of Study: Five Decades of Evidence from an Elite Regional University in China. Sociology, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/00380385241242044

Liang Chen Publishes an Article in 近代史研究 on Career Trajectories of Tsinghua Students Studying in the U.S. between 1909 and 1944

Chen Liang (梁晨) published a new article 《1909—1944年清华留美学生职业状况量化研究》 in 《近代史研究》(Modern Chinese History Studies) on the career trajectories of Tsinghua students studying in the U.S. between 1909 and 1944.

Here is the Chinese abstract:

借助数字技术并经人工比对，可从大量数字文献和数据库中收集到晚清民国清华选派的绝大多数留美学生的工作信息。该工作不仅为系统研究清华留美学生职业获得与发展建立数据基础，也为突破量化史学主要依靠结构性史料的局限提供了示例。分析清华留美学生多个时间节点的职业信息可知，他们回国初期主要在学校和实业部门工作，在实现“学以致用”的同时，初期职业较一般留学生更具专业性，后期职业则多有变动。其职业变动与国家局势颇为相关，“学以报国”的倾向更为明显。与此同时，留美学生群体的聚集性也逐步显现，同学关系在个人发展中的推动作用不断增强。清华留美学生职业发展的基础是重视客观选拔和系统培养，强调理论学习与实践运用相结合，可为后世提供借鉴。

关键词　　清华　留美学生　职业生涯　量化历史　数字技术

Full reference: 梁晨. 1909—1944年清华留美学生职业状况量化研究. 《近代史研究》2024年第4期.

Here is the link to the full text:

https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/phhUJoSuhzRsrSzAhsf0ag

Thanks to Yueran Hou of HKUST for the statistical calculations.

Liang Chen and James Lee Publish an Article in 中国社会科学 on Female University Students in Republican-era China

Chen Liang (梁晨) and James Z. Lee (李中清) published an article 《社会转型与中国近代女大学生的教育样态》 in 《中国社会科学》(Social Sciences in China) on the female university students in Republican-era China using the CUSD-ROC databases.

Here is the abstract in Chinese and English:

在近代社会转型背景之下，中国女大学生的教育环境和教育选择既与传统中国女性迥异，也与欧美不尽相同。一方面，随着女禁解除,男女同校的教育形式被中国高校普遍采纳，高校女大学生的制度环境较为宽松；另一方面，女大学生的社会来源和地理分布较男生更为集中，女子进入高等教育的门槛明显高于男生，在看似相对宽松的教育环境背后隐藏着更难逾越的阶层限制。大学之门平等向女性开放，是新中国成立后才逐渐发展形成的。这不仅有助于推进近代中国女性教育研究，也为理解全球近代女性平等的发展历程提供了中国经验。

One of the most radical and important social changes in the twentieth century is the opening of tertiary education to women. This article uses the China University Student Dataset-Republic of China (CUSD-ROC) and related education statistics in the Republican period, to understand better the early history of female tertiary education in China. By analyzing and contrasting student spatial and social origins by gender as well as different gender preferences for student majors, we demonstrate that many features of female education in Republican China differ from China in the past and elsewhere in. the world.

关键词：社会转型 女大学生 社会来源 量化历史

Keywords: Female university students, spatial origins, social origins, major selection, quantitative history

Full reference: 梁晨, 李中清. 社会转型与中国近代女大学生的教育样态. 《中国社会科学》2024年第6期, 162-183.

Here is the link to the full text:

https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/wRdxMdqCWnVGuw7N8nR7WA

We sincerely thank Bamboo Ren for her help with the writing!

Lee-Campbell Group at the Social Science History Association Meetings in Washington DC, November 16-19, 2023

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.