Spatial and Social Origins of China’s Educated Elite, 1865-2014
Project Description
We propose to compare the changing occupational and geographic origins of China’s examination elite for four sub-periods: the Self-Strengthening Movement 1865-1900, New Government 1900-1911, Republican 1912-1949, and Contemporary times 1949-2014. Preliminary analyses have already established that in each period, the geographic and social origins of the examination elite differed. Our project seeks to examine the implications of such diverse and fluid origins for our understanding of Chinese examination elites during the last century and a half, their distinctive mutability and heterogeneity relative to stable political as well as examination elites elsewhere, and the unexpected implications of this combination of open and silent political revolution and related social transformation for our understanding of stable state-society relations in China as opposed to elsewhere.
Supervisor
LEE James
Co-Supervisor
CAMPBELL Cameron Dougall
REN Bamboo Yunzhu
Quota
2
Course type
UROP1100
UROP2100
UROP3100
UROP4100
Applicant's Roles
Student will locate historical sources, do data entry, do descriptive analysis
Applicant's Learning Objectives
Students will learn a variety of skills in Quantitative Social Analysis including
A. Historical sources
B. Big Data construction
C. Descriptive analysis
Complexity of the project
Moderate