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- New article by Hu Cunlu using CGED-Q in 近代史研究 (10/12/2024)
- Lee-Campbell Group at the Social Science History Association Meetings in Toronto, October 31-November 3, 2024 (10/7/2024)
- Emma Zang and James Lee Publish an Article in Sociology on Family Background and Students’ Fields of Study (9/17/2024)
- 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 (8/28/2024)
- Liang Chen and James Lee Publish an Article in 中国社会科学 on Female University Students in Republican-era China (8/28/2024)
- CGED-Q JSL 1760-1798 Draft Release (7/3/2024)
- CGED-Q Research Seminar and Training Workshop at Central China Normal University, July 28-August 3, 2024 (5/24/2024)
- New paper on the organizational demography of Qing officialdom in 社會科學研究 (4/4/2024)
- Workshop on Chinese Historical Databases: Sources, Methods, Prospects held at HKUST, January 11-12, 2024 (1/16/2024)
- Lee-Campbell Group at the Social Science History Association Meetings in Washington DC, November 16-19, 2023 (12/17/2023)
- First in-person Lee-Campbell Group meeting since 2019 held 4 December 2023 (12/17/2023)
- New publication using process mining to study the careers of Qing officials in the CGED-Q JSL (9/9/2023)
- Training guide for using R to analyze the CGED-Q JSL public releases (9/7/2023)
- New 大数据与中国历史 Chinese translation of Cameron Campbell’s and James Lee’s 40 year career retrospective is now available (6/6/2023)
- English version of forthcoming paper on the organizational demography of the Qing civil service (6/3/2023)
- Hao Dong publishes a new Chinese article in 社会学研究 on the effect of China’s cooling-off period policy on trends in divorce registration (3/26/2023)
- Hao Dong publishes a new article in Demography on post-1900 trends in educational assortative marriage in China (3/26/2023)
- Tutorial for using R to analyze the CGED-Q JSL Public Releases (2/26/2023)
- New paper by others using CMGPD-LN (1/31/2023)
- CGED-Q JSL receives Best Project Award (最佳项目奖 ) at China Digital Humanities 2022 Annual Meeting (12/6/2022)
- Video of Cameron Campbell’s talk on Qing Officialdom in the HKU Quantitative History series (11/23/2022)
- James Lee, Bamboo Ren, and Chen Liang Publish an Updated Version of their 2020 China Quarterly Article “Meritocracy and the Making of the Chinese Academe, 1912-1952” (9/23/2022)
- Chinese Translation of Campbell’s and Lee’s Historical Chinese Microdata: 40 Years of Dataset Construction by the Lee-Campbell Research Group (9/10/2022)
- New paper on nominative linkage in the CGED-Q in Historical Life Course Studies (9/10/2022)
- Xue Qin completes PhD and takes up position at Central China Normal University (7/6/2022)
- Xue Qin publishes lead-authored article on officials in the Ministry of Personnel in the late Qing using the CGED-Q (5/31/2022)
- Hao Dong publishes a new article in PNAS on social mobility trends in post-revolution China (2/18/2022)
- CGED-Q Jinshenlu 1850-1864 Public Release now available (1/4/2022)
- Resources for users of the CGED-Q JSL Public Release (1/1/2022)
- Github repository with code for the CMGPD Public Release (12/30/2021)
- Major phase of data entry for the China Government Employee Database-Qing Jinshenlu (CGED-Q JSL) completed (11/25/2021)
- Newly published volume 3 of Big Data and the Study of Chinese History (大数据与中国历史研究) includes chapters by Lee-Campbell Group members (10/3/2021)
- Hao Dong publishes a new article in the History of the Family on adopted children’s survival differentials and gender differences in Tokugawa Japan (8/19/2021)
- CGED-Q Jinshenlu 1900-1912 Public Release Tabulation and Visualization Platform (8/2/2021)
- New Lee-Campbell Group Dataverse at Harvard Dataverse, with CGED-Q Jinshenlu 1900-1912 Public Release (7/27/2021)
- ‘World-Leading’ Lee-Campbell Research Group Project on Social Origins of Students at Elite Universities in China, 1949-2002 (7/10/2021)
- Chen Liang, Bamboo Y. Ren, and James Z. Lee publish a new article in《近代史研究》on the Geographic Origins of University Students During the Republic of China (6/3/2021)
- Cameron Campbell’s 2020 paper on exam degree holders at the end of the Qing mentioned in 2020年历史学研究发展报告 (5/1/2021)
- Paper on CGED-Q visualization in IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics by Bijia Chen, Cameron Campbell and others (3/24/2021)
- Dong Hao publishes new article in Chinese Sociological Review on family background effects on labor market outcomes of first-generation college graduates in China (3/13/2021)
- Bamboo Ren, Chen Liang, and James Lee publish new article in China Quarterly on “Meritocracy and the Making of the Chinese Academe, 1912-1952” using the CUSD-ROC, CUSD-OS, and CPOD-UE (1/18/2021)
- Beijing Science Press publishes Liang Chen’s new book on Republican-era Tsinghua University faculty and staff (12/21/2020)
- <民国上海大学生社会来源量化研究，1913-1949> wins a prize (12/19/2020)
- PRC Ministry of Education awards Lee-Campbell Group article an Excellent Research Achievement Award (12/19/2020)
- University of Michigan Press publishes Matt Noellert’s New Book on Communist Land Reform using the CRRD-LR (12/18/2020)
- Interview of James Lee by Alan Macfarlane in 2002 (11/27/2020)
- China Multi-Generational Panel Dataset Wins a Prize (10/31/2020)
- New paper on prefects during the Qing using the CGED-Q (10/6/2020)
- Matt Noellert begins new position as Associate Professor of Asian Economic History at Hitotsubashi University (9/17/2020)
- New paper recapping 40 years of ‘big data’ research on population, family and social history by James Lee, Cameron Campbell and collaborators (9/11/2020)
- New paper by Cameron Campbell on exam degree holders at the end of the Qing (7/20/2020)
- Extended discussion of Silent Revolution (无声的革命) in a video by Professor Yu Liang (余亮) (7/15/2020)
- English language paper introducing the CGED-Q published in the Journal of Chinese History (6/17/2020)
- New Milestones for Chen Liang (6/14/2020)
- Paper on assortative marriage in rural Shanxi during the mid-20th century published in Research in Social Stratification and Mobility (2/4/2020)
- Bijia Chen publishes comment on jinshenlu 縉紳錄 as a source (1/9/2020)
- Lee-Campbell Group celebrates Xiao Xing’s retirement and contributions (12/18/2019)
- PhD student Bijia Chen graduates, begins postdoc at Renmin University Department of History (11/1/2019)
- Lee-Campbell Group at the Social Science History Association meetings in Chicago, November 21-24, 2019 (10/26/2019)
- CGED-Q 1900-1912 Jinshenlu public release workshop held at Central China Normal University (8/9/2019)
- Updated version of CGED-Q 1900-1912 Jinshenlu Public Release available for download (8/1/2019)
- Bijia Chen wins “Best Research Award” from HKUST School of Humanities and Social Science (6/4/2019)
- China Government Employee Database – Qing (CGED-Q) 1900-1912 Jinshenlu records available for download (5/17/2019)
- 2019 Summer Workshop Introducing the 1900-1912 Jinshenlu Public Release (5/11/2019)
- 《江山代有才人出，各领风骚数十年：中国精英教育四段论，1865-2014》wins a prize (3/8/2019)
- Liang Chen named a 2019 青年拔尖人才 Outstanding Young Talent (3/6/2019)
- Paper on Banner officials in the Qing civil service 1900-1912 published in 清史研究 (12/5/2018)
- Lee-Campbell group at the Social Science History Association meetings in Phoenix, November 8-11, 2018 (8/30/2018)
- Paper on interethnic marriage during the Qing designated “Editor’s Choice” by the journal Demographic Research (8/6/2018)
- Hao Dong appointed as Assistant Professor at Peking University (7/25/2018)
- Paper on ethnic intermarriage during the Qing by Lee-Campbell Group members (7/10/2018)
- Shuang Chen’s book, State-Sponsored Inequality: The Banner System and Social Stratification in Northeast China named a 2017 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title (2/5/2018)
- Lee-Campbell Group at the Social Science History Association meetings in Montreal, November 2017 (10/17/2017)
- New Article on Changes in the Social and Geographic Origins of China’s Educated Elites (1865-2014) Published in 《社会学研究》 (6/9/2017)
- New Online Search Function for Records of Officials in the 缙绅录 Made Publicly Accessible (6/7/2017)
- Review Article by Song and Campbell on Multi-generational Data for Social Science Research Published in Annual Review of Sociology (6/7/2017)
- Computer Scientists Use CMGPD to Develop Visualization Tools for Genealogical Data (5/7/2017)
- Shuang Chen Promoted to Associate Professor of History with Tenure (4/30/2017)
- Matt Noellert awarded Luce/ACLS Program in China Studies Postdoctoral Fellowship (4/12/2017)
- Cameron Campbell named as Changjiang Scholar at Central China Normal University (4/2/2017)
- University of Washington Press Publishes Paperback Edition of Li Ji’s “God’s Little Daughters: Catholic Women in Nineteenth-Century Manchuria” (3/16/2017)
- Stanford University Press Publishes Shuang Chen’s New Book “State-Sponsored Inequality: The Banner System and Social Stratification in Northeast China” (3/16/2017)
- New Article by Hao Dong, James Lee, and Co-authors Published in Evolution and Human Biology (3/15/2017)
- Lee-Campbell Group Celebrates Professor SUN Huicheng’s Retirement and Contributions (1/10/2017)
- Lee-Campbell Research Group and Institute of Qing History Sign MOU (1/6/2017)
- First publication on our China Government Employee Database – Qing (CGED-Q) (12/18/2016)
- Liang Chen introduces the work of the Lee-Campbell group at a workshop at Harvard (11/9/2016)
- Lee-Campbell group at Social Science History Association meetings, November 17-20, 2016, Chicago, IL (11/6/2016)
- Welcome to the new Lee-Campbell group website! (11/1/2016)