This dataset is derived from the Whoʻs Who of American Returned Students 遊美同學錄 [Youmei Tongxue Lu] published in Peking [Beijing] in 1917, compiled by the Returned Students’ Information Bureau (Liumei xuesheng tongxunchu 留美學生通訊處) established at Tsinghua School in 1915. This book is crucial for documenting the early liumei's experiences during the transitional period between the late Qing dynasty and the early years of the Republic (1911-).

The dataset provides biographical information on the 401 individuals recorded in the directory, including their multiple names, gender, date and place of birth, family situation, date of arrival in the United States, date of return, source of funding, field of study. The data has been first retrieved automatically using Natural Language Processing techniques , and then manually checked and validated by the author. The information is given in both Chinese and English.

The Excel file contains two tabs, one for the data, one for the description of variables (key).

This dataset is derived from the Whoʻs Who of American Returned Students 遊美同學錄 [Youmei Tongxue Lu] published in Peking [Beijing] in 1917, compiled by the Returned Students’ Information Bureau (Liumei xuesheng tongxunchu 留美學生通訊處) established at Tsinghua School in 1915. This book is crucial for documenting the early liumei's experiences during the transitional period between the late Qing dynasty and the early years of the Republic (1911-).

The dataset records all the institutions to which the students were affiliated in the course of their lives, including the educational institutions in which they studied in China, the United States, and other countries; the public or private organizations in which they were employed; as well as their memberships in clubs and associations. The names of organizations were retrieved automatically using named entity recognition (SpaCy model), then manually cleaned, classified, and validated by the author.

The attached file contains three tabs for (1) the list of affiliations (data), (2) the classification of institutions (class); (3) the description of variables (key). The dataset records a total of 3,431 affiliations, linking 401 unique individuals to 1,305 unique institutions, distributed as followed:

    category_main
    n


    education
    535


    association
    255


    media
    108


    administration
    92


    business
    85


    facility
    47


    executive
    43


    railway
    39


    production
    33


    banking
    15


    other
    15


    event
    13


    military
    13


    judiciary
    8


    legislative
    4

This dataset is derived from the Whoʻs Who of American Returned Students 遊美同學錄 [Youmei Tongxue Lu] published in Peking [Beijing] in 1917, compiled by the Returned Students’ Information Bureau (Liumei xuesheng tongxunchu 留美學生通訊處) established at Tsinghua School in 1915. This book is crucial for documenting the early liumei's experiences during the transitional period between the late Qing dynasty and the early years of the Republic (1911-).

The dataset records information on kinship ties mentioned in the biographies of 192 students. The data has been extracted automatically through natural language processing, and then manually checked and validated by the author. The dataset records a total of 184 relatives and 216 ties (97 fathers, 80 siblings, 17 uncles, 16 spouses). It is structured as a four-column edge list:

ego: name of the biographed individual

relative: names of relatives mentioned in the biography

relation: nature of relation (father, uncle, sibling, spouse)

relation2: specification on the nature of relation (for siblings and spouses)

In addition, the second tab provides further information on the parents' occupational backgrounds (when available). The occupations have been classified into four main categories: business (merchants, entrepreneurs), intellectual (scholars, teachers, headmasters), officials, other (professionals, renteers...).

This dataset is derived from the Whoʻs Who of American Returned Students 遊美同學錄 [Youmei Tongxue Lu] published in Peking [Beijing] in 1917, compiled by the Returned Students’ Information Bureau (Liumei xuesheng tongxunchu 留美學生通訊處) established at Tsinghua School in 1915. This book is crucial for documenting the early liumei's experiences during the transitional period between the late Qing dynasty and the early years of the Republic (1911-).

The dataset records all the institutions to which the students were affiliated in the course of their lives, including the educational institutions in which they studied in China, the United States, and other countries; the public or private organizations in which they were employed; as well as their memberships in clubs and associations. The names of organizations were retrieved automatically from the Chinese biographies using named entity recognition (SpaCy model), then manually cleaned, classified, and validated by the author.

The attached file contains three tabs for (1) the list of affiliations (data); (2) the classification of organizations (class), and (3) the description of variables (key). The dataset records a total of 2,883 affiliations, linking 401 unique individuals to 1,344 unique institutions, distributed as followed:

    category
    n


    education
    565


    association
    271


    administration
    132


    business
    110


    facility
    92


    media
    66


    government
    49


    factory
    30


    other
    22


    military
    7