The table lists the members of the Shanghai Rotary Club around 1940, with their name and nickname, their date of birth (month, day), date of election (when they joined the Rotary), their nationality, their occupation, employer, class of business (according to the Rotary official classification), their business and residence address in Shanghai, and the offices they hold within the Rotary.
The original document also includes a photograph of each member. The original source comes from Calder's Papers - his personal copy of the Rotary Club's handbook published after 1939 (probably the 1940 edition).
In the first Excel document (198a), the first sheet lists the members of the Shanghai Rotary Club; the second sheet lists the place and time of meeting of the different branches of the Rotary Club in various cities in China; the third sheet lists the successive presidents of the Shanghai Rotary from its establishement in 1919 until 1938; the fourth sheet lists the committees and officers in 1940; the fifth sheets describes the classification of services within the Shanghai Rotary; the last sheet contains the key to headers.
The second Excel document (198b) includes the pivot tables I used to analyze specific social patterns and design related graphs (see the "Graphs" section). My preliminary findings suggest that the Shanghai Rotary was more culturally inclusive than it is usually thought - much more than traditional British clubs. Although it remained very elitist in terms of social status, it was nonetheless a genuinely transnational and transprofessional organization.
NB The Shanghai Rotary Club was established in 1919 by American expatriates as part of the worldwide network Rotary International (the first club was established in Chicago in 1912).
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