Page 130 - Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program Proceedings 2017-18

School of Humanities and Social Science
Division of Social Science

Accompanied with the Chinese Typhoon dataset, this report plays a critical role in explaining the dataset records and
addressing underlying concerns. The report also includes a detailed introduction of the main techniques applied during
data collection. Brief introduction of the data’s prime sources, as well as potential concerns among both the prime
sources and dataset arrangement process are also included in the second part of the report.

Supervisor: HE Guojun / SOSC
Student: ZHUANG Qinru / EVMT Course: UROP1100, Fall
UROP2100, Spring

This UROP project is the extension of the last one (UROP 1100) I have done, which aims to understand the relationship
between economic development, pollution and citizens’ health in China. In last semester, I took part in the study of
academic paper and data analysis. This semester, my task is still data analysis, but is more inclined to visualization of the
data. I was assigned with the same water pollution data and was asked to learn ArcGIS, a system for working with maps
and geographic information. During the semester, I managed to master ArcGIS and visualize the water pollution data,
which is of great importance and help to my environmental research.

An Analysis of Media Reports on Hong Kong's Democracy Movement

Supervisor: HONG Jean / SOSC
Student: LAM Cheuk Yuet / GCS Course: UROP1100, Spring

This report serves as a summarization and analysis on the newspaper critics and columns’ commentary on the critical
political events happened from the period of 2016 to 2018 in Hong Kong. Five papers are under review for each critical
event, these papers are namely, Apple Daily, Hong Kong Economic Journal, Ming Po, Sing Dao Daily and Tai Kung Pao.
The five critical incidents touched upon in this report are 2016 Legislative election, the 2016 Legislative Oath Taking
incident, the 2017 Chief Executive Election, 2017 Xi’s visit to Hong Kong and 2018’s China constitution reform.

Spatial and Social Origins of China’s Educated Elite, 1865-2014
Supervisor: LEE James / SOSC Co-Supervisor: CAMPBELL Cameron / SOSC
REN Yunzhu / SOSC
Student: JIANG Wenhao / GCS Course: UROP1100, Fall
UROP2100, Spring

This project deals with the social origins of university employees in early PRC period by constructing a micro-level
historical database. Based on over 1500 university staff’s registration forms ca. 1951-53 collected from Liaoning
Provincial Archive, this research finds that while most Republican university students came from well-off urban families,
the senior faculty in the Northeastern universities and institutions I study, came disproportionally from rural landlord
and rich peasant families. Moreover, the most accomplished senior faculty not only came disproportionally from rural
families, but even more disproportionally from the rural poor. Such an expected high-level social mobility in the
educational circle was either accomplished by a differential selectivity of students’ academic potential relative to the
social origins in Republican universities, or rooted in the particularity of Northeast in China.

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