Chinese Educational Mission Dataset (1872-1881)

<p>This series of 11 datasets is drawn from&nbsp;Rhoads, Edward J. M. <em>Stepping Forth into the World: The Chinese Educational Mission to the United States, 1872-81</em>. Hong Kong University Press, 2011.</p> <p>They document&nbsp;the 120 young Chinese who participated in the pioneering Chinese Educational Mission (CEM) in the United States&nbsp;(1872-1881). The first 8 files are drawn directly from the tables in Rhoads:&nbsp;</p> <ol> <li>Table 2.1&nbsp;CEM students, by detachment&nbsp;(p.14-17)</li> <li>Table 5.1. Initial host family assignments (p.51-54)</li> <li>Table 7.1. CEM students in middle schools (by state and locality) (p. 90-94)</li> <li>Table 7.2 CEM students in public high schools (by state and locality) (p.96-99)</li> <li>Table 7.3 CEM students in private academies (by state and locality) (p.99-100)</li> <li>Table 8.1 CEM students in colleges (by academic year of enrollment) (p.116-118)</li> <li>Table 9.1 Deaths, dismissals, and withdrawals from the CEM (by date) (p.136)</li> <li>Table 9.2 CEM students in the June 1880 census (p.138-142)</li> </ol> <p>Based on these tables, I created&nbsp;three synthetic datasets which can be used for statistical and network analyses:&nbsp;&nbsp;</p> <ol> <li>cem_attributes: students&#39; vital attributes, including their multiple names and transliteration, date and place of birth, and other attribute data (one row for each individual).&nbsp;</li> <li>cem_host: students&#39; host families in the United States</li> <li>cem_education: students&#39; educational curricula&nbsp;</li> </ol> <p>Each file contains two tabs, one for the data (data), one for the description of variables (key). Grey columns refer to the unstructured&nbsp;information given in the original source.&nbsp;</p>