Cameron D. Campbell 康文林
@camerondcampbell.blog
Stratification, inequality, population, China, history
https://camerondcampbell.blog
ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6277-1941
Photos https://CamerondCampbell.smugmug.com
https://www.instagram.com/cameron_d_campbell/
https://camerondcampbell.blog
ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6277-1941
Photos https://CamerondCampbell.smugmug.com
https://www.instagram.com/cameron_d_campbell/
Reposted by Cameron D. Campbell 康文林
The gov't has chosen the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) to run the city’s third medical school, with the first cohort of students expected to enrol in 2028. In full: buff.ly/sClTSB5
HKUST to run Hong Kong’s 3rd medical school, with first student intake in 2028
The gov't has chosen the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) to run the city’s third medical school, with the first cohort of students expected to enrol in 2028.
buff.ly
November 18, 2025 at 12:04 PM
The gov't has chosen the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) to run the city’s third medical school, with the first cohort of students expected to enrol in 2028. In full: buff.ly/sClTSB5
HKUST is going to launch Hong Kong's 3rd medical school!https://hkust.edu.hk/news/hkust-receives-governments-approval-establishing-new-medical-school
HKUST Receives Government's Approval for Establishing a New Medical School | The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
The establishment of Hong Kong's third medical school at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) was approved today by the HKSAR Government (the Government). This landmark decision ...
hkust.edu.hk
November 18, 2025 at 9:57 AM
HKUST is going to launch Hong Kong's 3rd medical school!https://hkust.edu.hk/news/hkust-receives-governments-approval-establishing-new-medical-school
Hitting the last line of this story...
November 18, 2025 at 3:46 AM
Hitting the last line of this story...
Not just Harvard... Journals, CAP, professional associations like AEA, etc., all need to cut ties with him.
@harvard.edu needs to fire Summers.
November 17, 2025 at 6:12 AM
Not just Harvard... Journals, CAP, professional associations like AEA, etc., all need to cut ties with him.
A few pictures from Sai Ying Pun a few nights ago, before dinner. Full Sai Ying Pun gallery: camerondcampbell.smugmug.com/China/Hong-K... #saiyingpun #hongkong #photography
November 16, 2025 at 7:00 AM
A few pictures from Sai Ying Pun a few nights ago, before dinner. Full Sai Ying Pun gallery: camerondcampbell.smugmug.com/China/Hong-K... #saiyingpun #hongkong #photography
Absolutely great thread about Larry Summers and what it says about the treatment of women in economics.
1/ Egalitarianism should begin at home. I link to this article by @bencasselman.bsky.social in light of the communications between Larry Summers and Jeffrey Epstein that have just been released. The released emails and the fact of friendship are vile.
www.nytimes.com/2021/02/23/b...
www.nytimes.com/2021/02/23/b...
For Women in Economics, the Hostility Is Out in the Open (Published 2021)
www.nytimes.com
November 16, 2025 at 4:58 AM
Absolutely great thread about Larry Summers and what it says about the treatment of women in economics.
Sheung Wan and Island West seen from near Ocean Terminal, at twilight #hongkong #photography #twilight Full gallery: camerondcampbell.smugmug.com/China/Hong-K...
November 16, 2025 at 2:36 AM
Sheung Wan and Island West seen from near Ocean Terminal, at twilight #hongkong #photography #twilight Full gallery: camerondcampbell.smugmug.com/China/Hong-K...
Reposted by Cameron D. Campbell 康文林
This is what it’s like to read about the American governing elite right now.
![At least five Tang dynasty (618–907) emperors were incapacitated and killed by immortality elixirs. In historic recurrences, the newly enthroned emperor understandably executed the Daoist alchemists whose elixirs had killed his predecessor, and then subsequently came to believe in other charlatans enough to consume their poisonous elixirs.
Emperor Xianzong (r. 805–820) indirectly lost his life due to elixir poisoning. The Xu Tongzhi (Supplement to the Historical Collections) says, "Deluded by the sayings of the alchemists, [Xianzong] ingested gold elixirs and his behaviour became very abnormal. He was easily offended by those officials whom he daily met, and thus the prisons were left with little vacant space." In response, an official wrote an 819 memorial to the throne that said:
Of late years, however, (the capital) has been overrun by a host of pharmacists and alchemists ... recommending one another right and left with ever wilder and more extravagant claims. Now if there really were immortals, and scholars possessing the Tao, would they not conceal their names and hide themselves in mountain recesses far from the ken of man? ... The medicines of the sages of old were meant to cure bodily illnesses, and were not meant to be taken constantly like food. How much less so these metallic and mineral substances which are full of burning poison! ... Of old, as the Li Chi says, when the prince took physic, his minister tasted it first, and when a parent was sick, his son did likewise. Ministers and sons are in the same position. I humbly pray that all those persons who have elixirs made from transformed metals and minerals, and also those who recommend them, may be compelled to consume (their own elixirs) first for the space of one year. Such an investigation will distinguish truth from falsehood, and automatically clarify the matter by experiment.
After the emperor rejected this appeal, the palace eunuchs Wang Shoucheng and Chen Hongzhi 陳弘志 assassinated him in 820.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4d2snfeymcblmvoaxvgfs7i6/bafkreicj4uaxsxrzzrod3yxa3uihy7odewkf4jpynd6mplgxek23u2rx5q@jpeg)
![When Xianzong's son and successor Emperor Muzong (r. 820–824) came to the throne, he executed the alchemists who had poisoned his father, but later began to take immortality elixirs himself. An official wrote Muzong an 823 memorial that warned:
Medicines are for use against illnesses, and should not be taken as food. ... Even when one is ill medicines must be used with great circumspection; how much more so when one is not ill. If this is true for the common people how much more so will it be for the emperor! Your imperial predecessor believed the nonsense of the alchemists and thus became ill; this your majesty already knows only too well. How could your majesty still repeat the same mistake?[27]
The emperor appreciated this reasoning but soon afterwards fell ill and died from poisoning. Palace eunuchs supposedly used poisonous elixirs to assassinate Muzong's young successor Emperor Jingzong (r. 824–827).](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4d2snfeymcblmvoaxvgfs7i6/bafkreieltlwjzprlfasqdo67fgciczehab5vw7qrdojwhixyyet6f33yc4@jpeg)
November 14, 2025 at 6:46 AM
This is what it’s like to read about the American governing elite right now.
One thing that boggles my mind is that two decades ago most of my colleagues and I began thinking of email as a replacement for faxes or memos, to be used for establishing an archival record, precisely because they would be preserved and available to others. 1/2
November 13, 2025 at 11:49 AM
One thing that boggles my mind is that two decades ago most of my colleagues and I began thinking of email as a replacement for faxes or memos, to be used for establishing an archival record, precisely because they would be preserved and available to others. 1/2
I have the same thought. Most of his emails seem barely coherent, and the advice and insight he provides is banal, ChatGPT level stuff. Yet as late as 2018 all these elites talk to him like he's a galaxy brain.
Something that’s so striking in these emails is how…unimpressive Epstein is. He comes off as a pompous, sub-literate lech. Yes everyone is so mortifyingly solicitous of him! All fawning and flattery! Why?????
November 13, 2025 at 5:02 AM
I have the same thought. Most of his emails seem barely coherent, and the advice and insight he provides is banal, ChatGPT level stuff. Yet as late as 2018 all these elites talk to him like he's a galaxy brain.
Turns out that C. Wright Mills was right on when he said that there is a "power elite." Though for our generation it seems to be an outlandish collection of finance, tech and crypto bros, academics, influencers, grifters, degenerates, perverts, cranks, buffoons, rich Nazis, and fabulists.
Whats so unnerving, among many other aspects of the whole sordid Epstein miasma, is how incestuous the world of these elites are. Everyone knows everyone. The personal, social, and professional spheres all overlap.
November 13, 2025 at 1:33 AM
Turns out that C. Wright Mills was right on when he said that there is a "power elite." Though for our generation it seems to be an outlandish collection of finance, tech and crypto bros, academics, influencers, grifters, degenerates, perverts, cranks, buffoons, rich Nazis, and fabulists.
Reposted by Cameron D. Campbell 康文林
Can none of these millionaires sex criminals write in full sentences? Have you heard of paragraphs? Punctuation? No wonder ChatGPT sounds like a genius to these clowns.
November 13, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Can none of these millionaires sex criminals write in full sentences? Have you heard of paragraphs? Punctuation? No wonder ChatGPT sounds like a genius to these clowns.
I just listened to "Boris the Spider", and then "Kung-Fu Fighting" and "Rasputin" and now I am missing the time when hit songs that were total bangers could also be complete bonkers.
November 11, 2025 at 12:43 PM
I just listened to "Boris the Spider", and then "Kung-Fu Fighting" and "Rasputin" and now I am missing the time when hit songs that were total bangers could also be complete bonkers.
New edited volume just dropped! Quantitative History of China: State Capacity, Institutions, and Development edited by Chen Zhiwu, myself, and Ma Debin is now able as a free PDF/ePub download. 1/2
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
Quantitative History of China
This Open Access book showcases a collection of new findings concerning China's political, social, and economic history based on large historical datasets.
link.springer.com
November 11, 2025 at 7:35 AM
New edited volume just dropped! Quantitative History of China: State Capacity, Institutions, and Development edited by Chen Zhiwu, myself, and Ma Debin is now able as a free PDF/ePub download. 1/2
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
Views of Kai Tak Sky Garden at Night Gallery: camerondcampbell.smugmug.com/China/Hong-K...
November 9, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Views of Kai Tak Sky Garden at Night Gallery: camerondcampbell.smugmug.com/China/Hong-K...
Some views from the Kai Tak Greenway at night 启德共融通道的夜景 Gallery: camerondcampbell.smugmug.com/China/Hong-K...
November 9, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Some views from the Kai Tak Greenway at night 启德共融通道的夜景 Gallery: camerondcampbell.smugmug.com/China/Hong-K...
Our 2022 paper on nominative record linkage in the 缙绅录 (CGED-Q JSL) has been translated into Chinese and published in 大数据与中国历史研究 (Big Data and the Study of Chinese History). 第5辑. camerondcampbell.blog/chinese-tran...
Chinese translation of our original record linkage paper - Cameron D. Campbell 康文林
Cameron Campbell HKUST 康文林 香港科技大學
camerondcampbell.blog
November 5, 2025 at 6:07 AM
Our 2022 paper on nominative record linkage in the 缙绅录 (CGED-Q JSL) has been translated into Chinese and published in 大数据与中国历史研究 (Big Data and the Study of Chinese History). 第5辑. camerondcampbell.blog/chinese-tran...
Idea for a fight scene in the next John Wick just dropped...
It's not in this article but the government asserts that the sandwich was thrown at "point blank range", which implies subway sandwiches have defined effective weapon ranges of varying lethality, and I would like to see the government's chart of these ranges.
Trial Begins for Man Accused of Lobbing a Sandwich at a Federal Agent www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/u...
November 4, 2025 at 7:19 AM
Idea for a fight scene in the next John Wick just dropped...
Our new manuscript estimating shares of late Qing degree holders who had kin other than direct patrilineal ancestors who held degrees, and within kin network correlations in degree attainment, based on a new dataset constructed from 同年齿录 and related records. 1/2 osf.io/preprints/so...
OSF
osf.io
November 3, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Our new manuscript estimating shares of late Qing degree holders who had kin other than direct patrilineal ancestors who held degrees, and within kin network correlations in degree attainment, based on a new dataset constructed from 同年齿录 and related records. 1/2 osf.io/preprints/so...
Absolutely pathetic. Why don't these people understand that preemptively bending the knee doesn't buy you anything, and invites even more extreme demands? It isn't like anyone in the WH is going to say, oh wow, UC has done enough now, let's leave them alone.
UC Provost Katherine Newman has announced plans to defund this program, a preemptive capitulation with the feds that has not been ordered and should not occur. Newman has done this with zero consultation with campus-level leadership and none with any faculty — mentors or former fellows included.
November 2, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Absolutely pathetic. Why don't these people understand that preemptively bending the knee doesn't buy you anything, and invites even more extreme demands? It isn't like anyone in the WH is going to say, oh wow, UC has done enough now, let's leave them alone.
Escalators on Centre Street in Sai Ying Pun, at night - Full gallery: camerondcampbell.smugmug.com/China/Hong-K...
November 2, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Escalators on Centre Street in Sai Ying Pun, at night - Full gallery: camerondcampbell.smugmug.com/China/Hong-K...
Sai Ying Pung on Hong Kong Island, at night. Full gallery camerondcampbell.smugmug.com/China/Hong-K...
November 2, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Sai Ying Pung on Hong Kong Island, at night. Full gallery camerondcampbell.smugmug.com/China/Hong-K...
Reposted by Cameron D. Campbell 康文林
Just posted a new working paper on SSRN! We pit rule-based, machine learning, and various LLM methods against each other to classify social outcomes (like gender, custody, and housing) from Chinese divorce judgments. What can human–machine disagreement teach us about validity and inference?
<p><b><span>From Extraction to Inference: Comparing Rule-Based, Machine Learning, and LLM Approaches for Classifying Social Outcomes in Legal Text</span></b></p>
<p><span>Legal texts encode key social outcomes, but their unstructured format, domain-specific language, and culturally embedded cues make them difficult to an
papers.ssrn.com
October 17, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Just posted a new working paper on SSRN! We pit rule-based, machine learning, and various LLM methods against each other to classify social outcomes (like gender, custody, and housing) from Chinese divorce judgments. What can human–machine disagreement teach us about validity and inference?
Reposted by Cameron D. Campbell 康文林
X is a cesspit led by an unhinged billionaire who is desperately trying to stir up civil war in Britain.
Nobody with any sense or decency should be there.
No organisations, government departments, or politicians should be there.
Everyone who is, is enabling this monster.
Nobody with any sense or decency should be there.
No organisations, government departments, or politicians should be there.
Everyone who is, is enabling this monster.
October 29, 2025 at 8:22 AM
X is a cesspit led by an unhinged billionaire who is desperately trying to stir up civil war in Britain.
Nobody with any sense or decency should be there.
No organisations, government departments, or politicians should be there.
Everyone who is, is enabling this monster.
Nobody with any sense or decency should be there.
No organisations, government departments, or politicians should be there.
Everyone who is, is enabling this monster.