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Cameron D. Campbell 康文林 @camerondcampbell.blog · 12h

We saw that as a test screening when I was in college. Someone was handing out tickets on campus and we scored some and drove from Pasadena to Westwood to see it. We loved it.

Cameron D. Campbell 康文林 @camerondcampbell.blog · 12h

Hasn't been an issue for me. I guess I've been lucky. I have more trouble in the US with Uber drivers who have exotic air freshener scents that are sometimes overpowering.

Cameron D. Campbell 康文林 @camerondcampbell.blog · 12h

I'm not one to cast stones since sometimes when after hiking on the Island on a hot day when we've taken the MTR back people who have the misfortune to be next to me will get up and move one after another.

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Cameron D. Campbell 康文林 @camerondcampbell.blog · 17h

I could have sworn that one was used but I just searched and couldn't find it. Maybe a conference presentation that never made it to publication.

Cameron D. Campbell 康文林 @camerondcampbell.blog · 17h

Just checked Google and nothing turned up. Better write something quickly to claim it. Maybe history of public health that focuses on policies based on miasma theory of disease causation?

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Cameron D. Campbell 康文林 @camerondcampbell.blog · 17h

First time for me. Occasional issues with cigarette smoke but never BO.

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Cameron D. Campbell 康文林 @camerondcampbell.blog · 18h

James Scott needs to write a sequel called "Smelling Like A State"

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Cameron D. Campbell 康文林 @camerondcampbell.blog · 18h

As a bonus, the driver was muttering obscenities almost from the time he picked me up. Though he went quiet after the app told him to open his windows.

Cameron D. Campbell 康文林 @camerondcampbell.blog · 18h

I almost wonder if I hallucinated it. Never seen anything like it. 3/3

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Cameron D. Campbell 康文林 @camerondcampbell.blog · 18h

The driver stared at his phone in shock and rolled down the windows. I was terrified that he would think I had used the app to snitch midride. Only thing I can figure is the passengers he dropped off when he picked me up complained using the app and Didi notified him during my ride. 2/3

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Cameron D. Campbell 康文林 @camerondcampbell.blog · 18h

Last night the Didi car that I rode back to the hotel smelled terrible because of driver's BO. I was suffering in silence and then the Didi app that was giving navigation suddenly switched and said something like "Driver, open the windows and allow air to circulate." 1/3

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Cameron D. Campbell 康文林 @camerondcampbell.blog · 19h

At airport security in Beijing and one of the staff came running up with a passport and asked if it was mine. She showed me the face page and the owner looked like a bald, skinny John Malkovich. Just for once, can't they mistake me for someone who looks like Brad Pitt?

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Cameron D. Campbell 康文林 @camerondcampbell.blog · 23h

I'm so sad to hear this. Diane Keaton's son was a classmate of our son in elementary school so we saw her regularly at the school and talked occasionally. She was a really nice, down to earth, and thoughtful person.

Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 1d

Terribly sad news about one of the greats. Diane Keaton has died at 79.
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Diane Keaton, Famed for Roles in 'Father of the Bride,' 'First Wives Club' and More, Dies at 79 (Exclusive)

Diane Keaton has died at age 79. Keaton was best known for roles in movies like 'Annie Hall,' 'The First Wives Club,' 'Something's Gotta Give' and 'The Godfather.'

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 1d

Terribly sad news about one of the greats. Diane Keaton has died at 79.
people.com/diane-keaton...

Diane Keaton, Famed for Roles in 'Father of the Bride,' 'First Wives Club' and More, Dies at 79 (Exclusive)

Diane Keaton has died at age 79. Keaton was best known for roles in movies like 'Annie Hall,' 'The First Wives Club,' 'Something's Gotta Give' and 'The Godfather.'

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Cameron D. Campbell 康文林 @camerondcampbell.blog · 1d

Temple of Heaven at night

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Cameron D. Campbell 康文林 @camerondcampbell.blog · 1d

Sweeping piece on women in science in 20th century China by @yangyangcheng.bsky.social

Maura Elizabeth Cunningham @mauracunningham.bsky.social · 1d

And, at @madeinchinajournal.com, Yangyang has "Beyond Representation: On Being a Woman in Science in China."

Beyond Representation: On Being a Woman in Science in China | Made in China Journal

In the autumn of 1995, Ye Shuhua made a speech. During the NGO Forum at the United Nation’s Fourth World Conference on Women, held in Beijing, the 68-year-old astronomer took to the microphone and…

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Maura Elizabeth Cunningham @mauracunningham.bsky.social · 1d

And, at @madeinchinajournal.com, Yangyang has "Beyond Representation: On Being a Woman in Science in China."

Beyond Representation: On Being a Woman in Science in China | Made in China Journal

In the autumn of 1995, Ye Shuhua made a speech. During the NGO Forum at the United Nation’s Fourth World Conference on Women, held in Beijing, the 68-year-old astronomer took to the microphone and…

madeinchinajournal.com

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Cameron D. Campbell 康文林 @camerondcampbell.blog · 4d

That said, at least for elite males, polygyny was certainly a goal. It's just that before the 20th century, outside of wealthy regions like Jiangnan, the fraction of the population with the wherewithal to do it was low.

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Cameron D. Campbell 康文林 @camerondcampbell.blog · 5d

Those numbers don't make sense unless you treat widower remarriage as polygyny. Polygyny in China was problematic in all sorts of ways but you can make that case fairly easily without resorting to wild claims about systemic effects like social unrest and war.

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Cameron D. Campbell 康文林 @camerondcampbell.blog · 5d

I think people's brains have been addled by watching too many costume dramas and these old men who were asking the questions were imagining that if they lived during the 18th century, they'd be the heads of important families, not farmers eking out an existence in some rural area. 3/3

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Cameron D. Campbell 康文林 @camerondcampbell.blog · 5d

One frustration I had when giving talks about marriage in historical China was that even though I said at the outset that polygyny was limited to a small number elite families, during the Q&A it was inevitable that some older male would raise their hand and want to talk about it. 2/3

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Cameron D. Campbell 康文林 @camerondcampbell.blog · 5d

I'd add that at least in China before the 20th century, polygyny probably wasn't as prevalent as commonly imagined. In our northeast Chinese rural datasets, it was very rare. By the late 19th century, it was also uncommon in the Imperial Lineage, except among close relatives of the Emperor. 1/3

Hampton Gaddy @hggaddy.bsky.social · 6d

🚨 The Economist has been telling you for years that polygamy causes civil war by locking men out of marriage. A new article with @rebeccasear.bsky.social and @anthrolog.bsky.social explains that the demography of marriage markets doesn't actually work that way. 🧵

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

High rates of polygyny do not lock large proportions of men out of the marriage market | PNAS

There is a widespread belief, in both the scholarly literature and the popular press, that polygyny prevents large numbers of men from marrying by ...

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Cameron D. Campbell 康文林 @camerondcampbell.blog · 5d

#birds perched on branches this morning at Pak Shui Wun beach next to the #hkust campus in #hongkong #birdphotography

Black-collared starling perched on a branch

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Hampton Gaddy @hggaddy.bsky.social · 6d

🚨 The Economist has been telling you for years that polygamy causes civil war by locking men out of marriage. A new article with @rebeccasear.bsky.social and @anthrolog.bsky.social explains that the demography of marriage markets doesn't actually work that way. 🧵

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

High rates of polygyny do not lock large proportions of men out of the marriage market | PNAS

There is a widespread belief, in both the scholarly literature and the popular press, that polygyny prevents large numbers of men from marrying by ...

www.pnas.org

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Cameron D. Campbell 康文林 @camerondcampbell.blog · 6d

Happy Mid-Autumn Festival!

Full moon seen in HK on the eve of the Mid-Autumn Festival

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Cameron D. Campbell 康文林 @camerondcampbell.blog · 6d

We've published a fair amount on fertility using these data, including responses to economic fluctuations, most notably our chapter in Prudence and Pressure (2010) direct.mit.edu/books/monogr...

Prudence and Pressure: Reproduction and Human Agency in Europe and Asia, 1700-1900

A study of human reproduction and social organization in preindustrial communities that reveals important similarities between Europe and Asia.This pioneer

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Cameron D. Campbell 康文林 @camerondcampbell.blog · 6d

Pleased to see a new paper by others examining fertility in northeast China during the late Qing using our dataset, the China Multi-generational Panel Dataset Qing, which is available for download at @icpsr.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Family fertility choices as a risk management mechanism: evidence from Late Qing China

This study investigates deliberate fertility control as a risk management strategy in traditional agricultural societies, focusing on Late Qing China. Using disaster records and the China Multi-Gen...

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