HAO DONG
Division of Social Science
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST)
Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong
Phone: (+852) 53451506
Email: [email protected]
Website: ihome.ust.hk/~sohdong
EDUCATION
Ph.D.
Social Science, HKUST, Hong Kong
Expected in 2016
Dissertation project: Kin Altruism in Context: Individual Consequences and Group
Implications in East Asia, 1700-1950 (Advisor: Prof. James Z. Lee)
M.Phil.
Social Science, HKUST, Hong Kong
LL.B.
Sociology (major), Zhejiang University, China
2010
Public Administration (minor), Undergraduate Program for Public Administration (UPA),
Chu Kochen Honors College, Zhejiang University
Visiting Stud.
Sociology (Host: Prof. Ineke Maas), Utrecht University, The Netherlands
Exchange Stud.
Sociology, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong
2012
Feb. – June 2014
Sept. – Dec. 2008
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Family and Kinship, Population and Health, Effect of Early Life on Later Life, Stratification and Inequality,
Historical Sociology and Demography, East Asian (and East-West) Comparisons
SCHOLARLY PUBLICATIONS
Peer-reviewed journal publications
English
Hao Dong, Cameron Campbell, Satomi Kurosu, Wenshan Yang, and James Z. Lee. Forthcoming. New Sources for
Comparative Social Science: Historical Population Panel Data from East Asia. Demography
Hao Dong and James Z. Lee. 2014. Kinship Matters: Long-Term Mortality Consequences of Childhood Migration,
Historical Evidence from Northeast China, 1792-1909. Social Science & Medicine, 119: 274-283 (DOI:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2013.10.024).
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Population Association of America Travel Award
HKUST School of Humanities and Social Science Best Postgraduate Research Award
Chinese
Chen Liang, Hao Dong, and James Z. Lee. Forthcoming. Big Micro-level Database and Historical Research.
Historical Research （量化数据库与历史研究，《历史研究》）
Chen Liang and Hao Dong. 2015. Construction and Analysis of Big Historical Micro-level Data: A Brief
Discussion with Examples of Data Gathered from University Student Registration Cards. Chinese Journal of
Sociology, 35(2): 94-108. (必要与如何：基于历史资料的量化数据库构建和分析——以大学生学籍卡片资料为中
心的讨论，《社会》)
Web-based publications
Hao Dong, Cameron Campbell, and James Z. Lee. 2015. Longitudinal Links to Construct the Korean MultiGenerational Panel Dataset – Tansung (KMGPD-TS) from the Tansung Household Registers. Data
Documentation. Hong Kong SAR, China: The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Institutional
Repository.
Cameron Campbell, Hao Dong, and James Z. Lee. 2014. China Multigenerational Panel Dataset (CMGPD)
Training Guide. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research
April 17, 2015
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Hongbo Wang, Shuang Chen, Hao Dong, Matthew Noellert, Cameron Campbell, and James Z. Lee. 2013. China
Multi-Generational Panel Dataset, Shuangcheng (CMGPD-SC) 1866-1914. User Guide. Ann Arbor, MI:
Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research
WORKING PAPERS
Finished
Hao Dong, Satomi Kurosu, Wenshan Yang and James Z. Lee. Effects of Kin and Birth Order on Male Child
Mortality: An East Asian Comparison of Three Historical Populations. Invited to resubmit, Proceedings of the
Royal Society B: Biological Science.
Hao Dong, Cameron Campbell, Satomi Kurosu, and James Z. Lee. Household Context and Individual Departure:
The Case of Escape in Three ‘Unfree’ Populations in East Asia, 1700-1900. In preparation for submission.
In progress
Demographic Processes and Status Attainment: A Study of 17,000 Men during Demographic Transition in the
Netherlands, 1850-1950 (with Ineke Maas)
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International Sociological Association Research Committee 28 Aage. B. Sørensen Memorial Student Travel Award
Determinants of Interethnic Marriage in 19th Century China (with Bijia Chen, Cameron Campbell and James Z. Lee)
Kin Altruism in Context: Individual Consequences and Group Implications in East Asia, 1700-1950
Kin Networks and Social Mobility: New Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Imperial China (with Cameron
Campbell and James Z. Lee)
Power, Wealth, and Opportunity: Changes in the Social Origins of China's Educated Elite, 1865-2014 (with James Z.
Lee, Chen Liang, Hongbo Wang, Mathew Noellert, Limin Liu, Cameron Campbell)
EXTERNALLY FUNDED RESEARCH PROJECTS
Collaborator (PI: Satomi Kurosu; other Collaborators: Cameron Campbell, Sangkuk Lee, Wenshan Yang).
“Comparative Study of Population and Family Using Historical Demographic Data in East Asia” Grant-in-Aid
for Scientific Research (B), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, JP¥7,100,000. 2015-2019
Collaborator (PI: Satomi Kurosu). “Construction of Database for Population and Economic History, Reitaku
Archives” Grant for archive construction, Reitaku Institute of Political Economics and Social Studies.
JP¥755,000. 2014-2015
Co-Investigator (PI: James Z. Lee; other Co-Is: Cameron Campbell, Satomi Kurosu, Wenshan Yang). “Human
Agency and Population Behavior in Historical and Comparative Perspective: New Discoveries from East
Asian Panel Data.” Hong Kong Research Grants Council Project Number 16400714, HK$637,992. 2014-2016.
PRESENTATIONS
Conference paper presentations
American Sociological Association Annual Meeting
Section on Evolution, Biology and Society Paper Session: Integrating Evolutionary and Biological Thinking into Sociological
Inquiry. San Francisco, USA 2014
European Population Conference
Session 241 Mortality – Associations, Pathways and Familial Background. Budapest, Hungary 2014
International Congress of Historical Sciences
Specialized Theme 22 Gender and Genetics in Historical Mortality Studies; Session 13: The Development of Historical
Demography in China and the world. Jinan, China 2015 (scheduled)
International Sociological Association Research Committee 28 on Social Stratification and Mobility Meeting
Session TBA, Tilburg. The Netherlands 2015 (scheduled)
Session 28 Health – Focus on the child. Budapest, Hungary 2014
April 17, 2015
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IUSSP International Population Conference
Session 186 Historical Demography of East Asia from Household Registers; Session 264 Early life stress and later health. Busan,
South Korea 2013
Population Association of America Annual Meeting
Session 196 Marriage Markets and Assortative Mating. San Diego, USA 2015
Session 31 Migration, Residential Mobility, and Population Health. San Francisco, USA 2012.
Social Science History Association Annual Meeting
Session 09 Individual and Contextual Determinants of Social Mobility over Time and Space. Toronto, Canada 2014
Session B10 Runaway Slaves, Serfs, and Peons: A Global Perspective; Session M8: Altruistic Effects of Kin. Chicago, USA 2013
Session L7 Migration in East Asia. Vancouver, Canada 2012
World Economic History Congress
Session TBA: Demographic Differentials by Wealth and Status. Kyoto, Japan 2015 (scheduled)
Invited seminar presentations
Center for Economic Institutions Seminar / Economic Development Workshop, Institute of Economic Research,
Hitotsubashi University, Japan 2015
Colloquium, Department of Sociology, Utrecht University, the Netherlands 2014
Sociology of Consumption and Households Research Seminar, School of Social Sciences, Wageningen University,
the Netherlands 2014
Economic, Social and Historical Demography Seminar, Department of History, Radboud University Nijmegen, the
Netherlands 2014
Seminar, School of Economics, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, China 2013
Seminar, Department of History, Shanxi University, China 2013
Historical Demography Seminar, Population and Family History Project, Reitaku University, Japan 2013
Seminar, Program for Historical Demography, Academia Sinica, Taiwan 2012
Workshop paper presentations
The Issues of Historical Demography of East Asia: Inequality Origins and Matters from Comparative Perspectives,
Sungkyunkwan Univerity, South Korea, 2015 (scheduled)
Rewriting the Past: Historical Big Data and a Scholarship of Discovery, HKUST, Hong Kong, 2014
7th Annual PhD Conference in Economic Demography, Lund University, Sweden 2014
Family Survival Strategy, Seoul National University, South Korea 2012
Historical Rural Migration in East Asia, California Center for Population Research, UCLA, USA 2011
HONORS AND AWARDS
Fellow, Hong Kong PhD Fellowship Scheme (HKPFS), Research Grants Council of HK (HK$1,000,000)
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2012-16
My 2012 HKPFS cohort: 135 fellows out of 4000+ applicants (for PhD position in all academic disciplines in Hong Kong)
from 40+ countries and regions
Aage. B. Sørensen Memorial Student Travel Award, Research Committee 28 on Social Stratification, International
Sociological Association (US$750)
2015
Best Postgraduate Research Award, School of Humanities and Social Science, HKUST (HK$5,000)
2014
Overseas Research Award, HKUST (HK$38,343)
2014
Travel Award, Population Association of America (US$5,000)
2012
Research Postgraduate Studentship, HKUST (HK$326,400)
Research Travel Grant, HKUST (HK$16,282)
April 17, 2015
2010-12
2011&12
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Excellent Leadership / Triple A Student / Excellence in Arts & Sports, Zhejiang University (Multiple times) 2006-10
Chu Kochen Honors Certificate, Zhejiang University
2010
Overseas Exchange Scholarship, Zhejiang University (CN¥6,000)
2008
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Visiting researcher
Population and Family History Project, Reitaku University, Japan, April 2013 and March 2015
Program for Historical Demography, Academia Sinica, Taiwan, July 2012
Conference session organizer and service
Co-organizer, “Demographic Differentials by Wealth and Status”, XVII World Economic History Congress, Kyoto,
Japan 2015
Chair and Discussant, “Social Homogamy”, European Social Science History Conference, Vienna, Austria 2014
Organizer, “Altruistic Effects of Kin”, Social Science History Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, USA 2013
Teaching assistance
A New History for a New China, 1700-2000 (for postgraduate, Prof. James Z. Lee, HKUST)
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Blended course / flipped classroom design, with intensive instruction on English academic writing and presentation skills.
Data Management and Analysis of the China Multi-Generational Panel Data Series (CMGPD) (training workshop
for postgraduate and junior faculty, Prof. Cameron Campbell, funded by NICHD)
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Intensive instruction on techniques of large-scale longitudinal data management
Population and Society (for undergraduate, Prof. Edward Jow-Ching Tu, HKUST)
Population and Economic Development in China (for undergraduate, Prof. John Zhongdong Ma, HKUST)
Social Science Research Design and Methods (for postgraduate, Prof. Cameron Campbell, HKUST)
Journal referee
Social Science & Medicine
Administrative service
HKUST Senate Committee on Postgraduate Studies (CPS), 2013-15
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
American Sociological Association (ASA), European Association for Population Studies (EAPS), International
Sociological Association Research Committee 28 on Social Stratification and Mobility (ISA-RC28), International
Union for the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP), Population Association of America (PAA), Social Science
History Association (SSHA)
OTHER INFORMATION
Year of birth: 1988
Nationality: Chinese
Language: Mandarin Chinese (native), English (proficient)
Software: Stata, Mplus
Classical violinist: Many semi-professional solo, chamber, and symphony performances in Hong Kong and
Mainland China
April 17, 2015
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