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ID388
TitleThe Rotary Club of Shanghai West: Classification of members
Year Start1948
DateMonday 8 June 2020
Description

The attached graphs offer various ways of visualizing the professional distribution of Chinese members of the Rotary Club of Shanghai West (Chinese speaking-speaking club established in 1948 in parallel to the original Rotary Club of Shanghai). Our analysis is based on a simplified version of the standard classification of professions devised by Rotary International in the early 1920s. Data comes from the membership lists available in the Archives of Rotary International, Evanston, Ill. The tables used for building the graphs are available in the "Tables" Section. 

The graphs reveals that the professional distribution of members was very similar to that of the Rotary Club of Shanghai. Chemical industry and medicine ranked first, followed by general merchandising, education, and tourism, also important sectors in the English-speaking club. Some professional groups that were prominent among Shanghai Rotarians, however, went missing in the Chinese-speaking club, namely cotton and silk industries, building and construction, machinery equipment and recreational services. Despite these slight differences, however, the postwar club of Shanghai West did not differ much from its foreign counterpart.

KeywordsRotary ; club ; Americanization ; membership ; roster ; profession ; classification ; Shanghai West ; Chinese-speaking ;
LanguageEnglish
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