Category: datasets
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CGED-Q JSL 1760-1798 Draft Release
We have made available a draft release of the China Government Employee Dataset-Qing (CGED-Q) Jinshenlu (JSL) 1760-1798 data at the HKUST Dataspace: https://dataspace.hkust.edu.hk/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.14711/dataset/E9GKRS We expect to release a final version later in the year reflected corrections to any problems identified by users. We are grateful to Xue Qing and Bijia Chen who spotted issues with…
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CGED-Q Research Seminar and Training Workshop at Central China Normal University, July 28-August 3, 2024
In conjunction with the next public release of data from the CGED-Q JSL, there will be a research conference and training workshop at Central China Normal University July 28-August 3 in conjunction with the next public release of data from the China Government Employee Dataset-Qing (CGED_Q) Jinshenlu. The conference will be July 29 and July…
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Workshop on Chinese Historical Databases: Sources, Methods, Prospects held at HKUST, January 11-12, 2024
Cameron Campbell organized a meeting on Chinese Historical Databases: Sources, Methods, Prospects on January 11 and 12, 2024 at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. The meeting is one in a series of activities intended to promote the development of research infrastructure for studying China’s past organized under the auspices of and with…
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Training guide for using R to analyze the CGED-Q JSL public releases
Chen Jun has created a training guide (in Chinese) to help anyone who would like to learn how to use R to analyze the CGED-Q JSL Public Releases. The PDF file is available for download here. Chen Jun has produced other resources including slides and sample code for R, and they and the training guide…
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Tutorial for using R to analyze the CGED-Q JSL Public Releases
Chen Jun, my MA student at Central China Normal University, has shared slides and sample code he produced to help anyone planning to use R to analyze the CGED-Q JSL public releases. The materials are all in Chinese. They introduce how to import the public data into R, create and transform variables, process strings to…
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New paper by others using CMGPD-LN
We were pleased to learn that Yu Bai, Yanjun Li, and Pak Hong Lam had just published a paper “Quantity-quality trade-off in Northeast China during the Qing dynasty” in the Journal of Population Economics using the public release of the CMGPD-LN! We hope their paper along with other recent publications by others using the dataset…
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CGED-Q JSL receives Best Project Award (最佳项目奖 ) at China Digital Humanities 2022 Annual Meeting
We are pleased to report that the China Government Employee-Qing (CGED-Q) Jinshenlu (JSL) dataset was one of four to receive the Best Project Award (最佳项目奖 ) at the China Digital Humanities 2022 Annual Meeting held at Renmin University on November 26 and 27. For more information about the award, please see the final report of…
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Video of Cameron Campbell’s talk on Qing Officialdom in the HKU Quantitative History series
Cameron Campbell presented a talk on Qing officaldom in the Hong Kong University Quantitative history series in November 2022. The video has been upload to Youtube:
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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 37,632 (by our linkage) officials who served between 1850 to 1864. The information is drawn from 26 quarterly editions. We chose 1850-1864 as the next period for a release since it includes…
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Resources for users of the CGED-Q JSL Public Release
Cameron Campbell created a page at his website to share code that may be useful when managing or analyzing the CGED-Q Jinshenlu Public Release. This includes code to create flag variables to help with the selection of records for analysis, as well as code for transforming, cleaning or re-categorizing the contents of key variables.