We have added our China Government Employee Dataset-Beiyang (CGED-BY) data to our online search platform. This contains information about 36,000 Beiyang officials from 1912 to 1924. If you find information about someone you are interested in, please let us know. We love to hear stories from users!
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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 the data before it was released.
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 30. Papers that make use of Jinshenlu and related sources are welcome. The training workshop will be July 31-August 2.
Here is the announcement of the research conference in Chinese:
https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/_4A0DO6hglCS2iHW2xscQA
Here is the announcement for the training workshop in Chinese:
https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/XTGWh6r0dWxYUmJAEUtZWA
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 support from the RGC Areas of Excellence Project Quantitative History of China (Chen Zhiwu PI). Staff from the HKUST School of Humanities and Social Sciences, including Lee-Campbell Group RA Shengbin Wei, provided logistical support.
The meeting brought together historians and social scientists constructing databases suited for the quantitative analysis of Chinese history. Participants from Hong Kong, mainland China, and Europe introduced their databases. These included projects that were already complete, others were in progress, and some were in the planning stages. Presentations and discussion focused not only on the content of the databases and prospects for analysis, but nuts and bolts issues related to the construction, preservation, documentation and dissemination of the databases. Several presentations covered techniques being used to automate the creation of databases, including OCR, tokenization, entity recognition, and record linkage.
Lee-Campbell Group members including Cameron Campbell, Dong Hao, Gao Shuaqi, Chen Jun, Wu Yibei, James Lee, Hou Yueran and Matt Noellert made presentations introducing their databases.
In addition to the presenters, other faculty and students attended as observers.
The meeting concluded with the development of plans for training workshops for historians to help them learn how to construct databases and make use of existing ones.
Christian Henriot has written a more detailed discussion of the Chinese historical databases meeting at the ENEP website.
Opening
Introductory Remarks by Chen Zhiwu, Cameron Campbell
Session 1 – New Approaches
Chair: Cameron Campbell
Lin Zhan
Content and Value of the Chinese Genealogy Database
Guenther Lomas
The Process of Building the Chinese Genealogy Database
Chen Yuqi
Geocoding the Past World: Unearthing Coordinates of Early China from Texts Using Large Language Models
Session 2 – Geographic, Economic, and Other Context
Chair: Chen Zhiwu
Hu Heng
清史时空综合数据平台-清史地理信息系统和基于地方志的清代职官信息集成数据库
Ma Debin
Quantifying Living Standards, an Overview
Ziang Liu
Early Modern Wages: Data and Limits
Gao Shuaiqi
清代危机（灾害）量化数据的应用与局限
Session 3 – Late Imperial China I
Chair: James Lee
Ma Min
基于近代传教士档案的人物数据库设想
Dong Hao
East Asian Population Databases
Christian Henriot
Modern China Historical Database: Current Status and Future Prospects
Session 4 – Late Imperial China II
Chair: Debin Ma
Cameron Campbell
CGED-Q: Current Status and Future Plans
Chen Jun
CGED-Q ZSBL: Military Officials
Fu Haiyan
近代中国寺庙登记表数据库及初步的研究
Session 5 – ROC
Chair: Dong Hao
Yibei Wu
Late Qing and Beiyang Student Records, and Beiyang and ROC Officials
Hou Yueran
Construction of Occupational Database of Tsinghua Students Studying in America with Boxer Indemnity Fund (1909-1944)
Lik Hang Tsui
Ink Trails: Correspondence and Connections in a Dataset of Epistolary Manuscripts from Song China
Session 6 – ROC and PRC
Chair: Christian Henriot
Matthew Noellert
Lee-Campbell Group Post-1949 Rural Datasets
James Lee
Lee-Campbell Group PRC and ROC Educational, Academic, and Professional Datasets
Chen Ting
Post-1949 County Gazetteers
Pierre Landry
China’s provincial CCP élite since 1921
Future Directions
Panel with remarks by Cameron Campbell, Zhiwu Chen, Christian Henriot, and James Z. Lee
Participant Roster
| Campbell | Cameron | 康文林 |
| Chen | Jun | 陈俊 |
| Chen | Ting | 陈婷 |
| Chen | Yuqi | 陈钰琪 |
| Chen | Zhiwu | 陈志武 |
| Dong | Hao | 董浩 |
| Fu | Haiyan | 付海晏 |
| Gao | Shuaiqi | 高帅奇 |
| Henriot | Christian | 安克强 |
| Hou | Yueran | 侯玥然 |
| Hu | Heng | 胡恒 |
| Hu | Cunlu | 胡存璐 |
| Kan | Hongliu | 阚红柳 |
| Landry | Pierre | 李磊 |
| Lee | James | 李中清 |
| Lin | Zhan | 林展 |
| Liu | Ziang | 刘紫昂 |
| Lomas | Guenther | 罗孟德 |
| Ma | Debin | 马德斌 |
| Ma | Min | 马敏 |
| Noellert | Matthew | 倪志宏 |
| Tsui | Lik Hang | 徐力恒 |
| Xue | Qin | 薛勤 |
| Wei | Shengbin | 韦圣彬 |
| Yang | Yang | 杨阳 |
| Yu | Bruce | 虞越 |
| Zhang | Lawrence | 张乐翔 |
| Wu | Yibei | 吴艺贝 |
| Beth | Kwok | 郭靖琦 |
| Miles | Steven | 麦哲维 |
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 are all available at this page.
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 create variables, and tabulate and graph results. We hope that this will be useful to users of the data.
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 will inspire others to use it.
Here is a link to their paper: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00148-022-00933-x
We are eternally grateful for the support from NICHHD that allowed us to prepare the CMGPD-LN for release, and to ICPSR for hosting the dataset.
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 the CDH 2022 meeting.
For more information about the CGED-Q JSL, please see the project page at the Lee-Campbell Group Website.
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:
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 the Taiping Rebellion, a major event in 19th century Qing history.
Each record includes information about the post, and if it was occupied, the holder, including their name, province and county of origin, qualification, and other information.
Together with our previous release of 686,945 records for the period 1900-1912, we have now released publicly more than 1,000,000 records from the CGED-Q.
The 1850-1864 and 1900-1912 releases may be downloaded at the HKUST Dataspace, the Harvard Dataverse, and the mirror site at Renmin University Institute for Qing History:
HKUST Dataspace
https://dataspace.ust.hk/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.14711/dataset/E9GKRS
Harvard Dataverse
https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/GMQWVZ
Renmin University Institute for Qing History
http://39.96.59.69/DownloadFile/DLFile