Who's Who of American Returned Students 遊美同學錄 (1917): Kinship Data

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...).