Meet Zheng Yaonan, General Manager
This is the second instalment of my series of essays aimed at drawing a collective biography of the Consolidated National Advertising Co. In this post, we propose to start our gallery of individual portraits...
Catégorie : elite
Americanizing Chinese Elites in Republican Shanghai
Last week Tuesday February 11, 2020, I was invited to present my current research on the Rotary Club of China and transnational elite sociability in the workshop “Networks in East Asia: Methods and Case...
X-perts (5): Contributors’ biographical background
In this essay, we propose a sociography of CEJ authors, paying special attention to their national origin, educational background and professional occupations at the time they contributed to the journal. National origins Where did...
X-perts (4): CEJ Contributors’ Profile
This essay provides a preliminary analysis of authors’ profiles in the Chinese Economic Journal (CEJ). As demonstrated in our previous post, the CEJ mobilized a total of 149 unique contributors over the fifteen years...
X-perts (2): A Distant Reading of the Chinese Economic Journal (1924-37)
This is the second instalment of my series devoted the Chinese Economic Journal (CEJ) and the development of technocratic expertise in modern China. While my previous post consists in a general introduction to this...
X-Rotary (13): Epilogue
This post will close our series of essays devoted to the network analysis of meeting attendance at the Shanghai Rotary Club. This series has explored the value of a multimodal approach to persons in...
X-Rotary (12): One-mode network of multiple roles
This is the last essay in our series devoted to meeting attendance at the Shanghai Rotary Club. In this post, we propose to analyze the combinations of roles that participants performed during meetings. The...
X-Rotary (11): One-mode network of multiple attendance
In order to complete our dual projection approach, we now propose to analyze the networks of events-events joined by persons – or networks of multiple attendance at Rotary meetings. In the following networks, nodes...
X-Rotary (10-b): Clustered networks of co-attendance
In the previous post, we started to examine the network of co-attendance during Rotary meetings. Up to this point, our analysis was locally focused on attendees” influence or intermediarity, and the frequency of co-attending...
X-Rotary (10): One-mode networks of co-attendance
In order to complement the bimodal approach we conducted in our last post, we now propose a dual-projection analysis. For this purpose, we first projected the initial two-mode networks into two one-mode networks of...
X-Rotary (9): Two-mode networks of meeting attendance
As announced in the introductory post, the first step in our analysis of Rotary networking consists in designing three bimodal networks, one for each term (Petit, Fitch, Harkson). In analyzing two-mode data, we typically...
X-Rotary (8): Meeting Networking
This is the first installment of a series of essays that attempt to apply Social Network Analysis (SNA) methods to the study of the Shanghai Rotary Club, with a view to detect relational patterns...
X-Rotary (7): Mapping workplaces and residences
This is the seventh and last episode devoted to the Shanghai Rotary Club. This episode complements the previous one by mapping more systematically the workplace and residences of Shanghai Rotarians using Geographical Information Systems...
X-Rotary (6): Rotarians’ workplace and residence
Sixth episode in my sociography of the Shanghai Rotary Club. This episode aims to identify the spatial patterns of Rotarians’ workplace and residence in Shanghai. This statistical study serves as a prologue to a...
X-Rotary (5): Rotarians’ occupations
This is the fifth episode in my series on the Shanghai Rotary Club. In order to complement the previous episode devoted to the structure of activities, what I propose here is to examine more...
