Members of the Chinese Students' Alliance in the United States (1912)

The dataset is a list of members of the Chinese Students Alliance in the United States for the academic year 1911-1912. It is sourced from The Directory of Chinese Students in the United States, 1911-1912, compiled by the Chinese Students Alliance in 1912. The directory has been digitized by Google and is available in full view on HathiTrust and Internet Archive.

The attached table contains information on the students' names (in Chinese, English, and pinyin transliteration), gender, address in the United States, university in the United States (when available), and the alliance section (Eastern, Midwest, Western) to which they belonged (when available). Additionally, the table provides the geographical coordinates of the cities.

The data was extracted using Claude (AI) and curated using Excel and R. The complete code for extracting and curating the data is available on GitHub. Additionally, the GitHub repository contains various statistics and visualizations, such as the distribution of students by city.

The dataset contains 882 students (unique individuals), 802 men and 80 women. 

Distribution by sections (p.119): 

Sections
Members
Non-Members
Total

Eastern
201
127
328

Midwest
121
123
244

Western
42
66
108

Unreturned (Missing)
101
96
197

Total
465
412
877