Professor Cameron Campbell Co-Edits New Volume on Quantitative History of China

Professor Cameron Campbell has a new edited volume Quantitative History of China State Capacity, Institutions and Development, co-edited with Zhiwu Chen and Debin Ma. The volume showcases a collection of new findings concerning China's political, social, and economic history and typically based on newly constructed large historical datasets. Most of the work has involved an interdisciplinary team of economists, sociologists, political scientists, historians and econometricians, demonstrating how new big data and quantitative methods may be brought to bear on some of the biggest questions related to China's development over the past three millennia and on the implications of distant past events on contemporary China. Topics covered range from the roles of war, state formation, religion, culture, finance and institutions in long-run development and technological innovations, to regicide history, to the organization and capacity of the bureaucracy. Contributors include leading figures in the quantitative study of China's long-run socioeconomic and political history. 

Find out more: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-981-96-8272-0