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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!

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”

Cover of Khanna and Szonyi’s edited volume Making Meritocracy

 

In “Meritocracy and the Making of the Chinese Academe Redux, 1912-1952”, a chapter in the new Oxford University Press volume edited by Michael Szonyi and Tarun Khanna Making Meritocracy: Lessons from China and India, from antiquity to the present, James Lee, Bamboo Y. Ren, and Chen Liang update the figures, maps, tables and related text from their earlier China Quarterly article to include domestic student data from five additional Chinese universities as well as data on many more overseas Chinese students from foreign universities.

Web page for Making Meritocracy at Oxford University Press

Full reference:

Lee, James, Bamboo Y. Ren, and Chen Liang. 2022. Meritocracy and the Making of the Chinese Academe Redux, 1912-1952. In Michael Szonyi and Tarun Khanna, eds. Making Meritocracy: Lessons from China and India. Oxford University Press, 137-169.

HKUST colleague Lawrence Zhang contributed a chapter to the same volume:

Sheth, Sudev and and Lawrence L. C. Zhang. 2022. “Meritocracy in Early Modern Asia: Qing China and Mughal India.”  In Michael Szonyi and Tarun Khanna. Eds. 2022. Making Meritocracy: Lessons from China and India, from Antiquity to the Present, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 85-117.

 

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

This article takes advantage of three new big historical datasets to identify four salient features of the Chinese academe during the Republic of China. First, it was highly international in terms of training. Second, the proportion of female students was unexpectedly large. Third, there was a heavy emphasis on STEM subjects. Finally, the social and spatial origins of China’s university students and university faculty members changed from a national population of civil servant families to business and professional families largely from Jiangnan and the Pearl River Delta. The datasets are the China University Student Dataset – Republic of China, which includes almost half of all students to graduate from a Chinese university during the first half of the 20th century; the China University Student Dataset – Overseas, which includes the vast majority of all Chinese students to graduate from an North American, European or Japanese university during this same period; and the China Professional Occupation – University Employee Dataset, which includes almost all university faculty members in China, 1941–1950. The China University Student Datasets are described in detail here.

Here is a link to the paper at the China Quarterly page:

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/china-quarterly/article/meritocracy-and-the-making-of-the-chinese-academe-19121952/91FDD1422C31D5CA8119F14BD2AD1162

 

Beijing Science Press publishes Liang Chen’s new book on Republican-era Tsinghua University faculty and staff

Liang Chen’s new book A Study of the Living Standards and Social Structures of Faculty and Staff in Republic of China: Focusing on Tsinghua Campus was published in November 2020 by Beijing Science Press. Publication was supported by funding from the National Social Science Foundation.

The book systematically examines the numbers, work, family patterns, living standards, social status, and educational attainment of every category of Republican-era university employees through a case study of the Tsinghua campus.  According to the results, from the perspective of living standards there were multiple strata in campus society. The income disparity between faculty, staff, and other groups was large. This created a structure in which differences were stark. Stratification in the “Tsinghua campus” was ostensibly reasonable, in principle based on position or title and the level of education.  However, underpinning this structure were inequalities in access to education by wealth and geography origin associated with the general acceptance of the “Western learning” model of education and commensurate reduction in the role of education in social integration.

Here is the book page at Douban.

梁晨新著《民国大学教职员工生活水平与生活结构研究：以清华为中心》（A Study of the Living Standards and Social Structures of Faculty and Staff in Republic of China: Focusing on Tsinghua Campus）于2020年11月，在北京科学出版社出版。该书为“国家社科基金后期资助项目”，主要内容是对以“清华园”为代表的民国大学校园中各类从业群体的工作性质、人口数量、家庭规模、生活水平、社会地位以及教育获得的系统梳理和相关关系分析。分析发现“清华园”这样的校园社会中，以生活水平为标准，存在着多个阶层，教职员工各职业群体间的经济收

入相差悬殊，形成了差距鲜明，“恍若隔世”的生活水平结构。这种“校园社会”的阶层结构，基本以个体的职务或职称等级为基础，并以个体的教育获得差异为“合理性”依据，但背后实质上是近代中国全面接受“西学”教育体系过程中，教育获得极大地被财富和地理分布所左右，教育的社会融合功能大为降低。

<民国上海大学生社会来源量化研究，1913-1949> wins a prize

As part of their 2020 biennial competition, the Jiangsu academe awarded Chen Liang, Bamboo Yunzhu Ren, Yuqian Wang, James Z. Lee,  2017, <民国上海大学生社会来源量化研究，1913-1949>,  《历史研究》(Historical Research) 第三期 (May): 76-92,  a second prize (二等奖) for Outstanding Achievement in Philosophy and Social Science. This is the third publication by the Lee-Campbell Group to receive such recognition from the Jiangsu academe.  For full text please follow this link.

Here is the official announcement.

 

PRC Ministry of Education awards Lee-Campbell Group article an Excellent Research Achievement Award

The Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China awarded Chen Liang, Hao Dong, James Z. Lee, 2015,  <量化数据库与历史研究> (Big Historical Data and New Directions in Historical Research) 《历史研究》(Historical Research). Vol 2 (April 2015): 113-128 a 优秀青年成果奖 (Excellent Young Scholar Research Achievement Prize). This is the eighth triennial Excellent Research Achievement Award competition and the first to distinguish young scholars, below age 40, from more senior scholars.  Altogether 11 history publications, including nine books and only two articles, received this recognition.

Here is the official announcement at the PRC Ministry of Education website.

New Milestones for Chen Liang

New milestones for Chen Liang, a 2019 青年拔尖人才 Outstanding Young Talent.  Nanjing University promoted Chen to Full Professor of History in Fall 2019, and to  Associate Dean of the College of History in charge of research and graduate training in Spring 2020.

Congratulations Chen!

《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

The Jiangsu Academy of Social Science awarded 梁 晨 (Chen LIANG), 董浩(Hao DONG), 任韵竹 (Bamboo Y. REN), 李中清 (James Z. Lee).《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》. 《社会学研究》第三期(May/June): 48-70, a 2017 third prize (三等奖) for Outstanding Achievement in Philosophy and Social Science. This is the second such recognition in the last five years by the Jiangsu Academy of Lee Campbell Research Group scholarship and our tenth best book, best article, or choice award from a scholarly organization.

Liang Chen named a 2019 青年拔尖人才 Outstanding Young Talent

Liang Chen was named a 2019 青年拔尖人才 Outstanding Young Talent.  Outstanding Young Talents are Chinese scholars under the age of 40 from the natural and applied sciences, humanities, social sciences, and creative arts whose academic achievements already demonstrate outstanding creativity and social impact.

The Young Talents program was established in 2012. Approximately 200 Young Talents are named each year according to a rigorous nomination and selection process similar to those for Young Thousand Talents 青年千人 and Young Changjiang Scholars 青年长江 .