The following network aims to explore Chinese Rotarians' attendance at club meetings based on the reports of meetings issued in local newspapers. 

This attendance network consists in a two-mode network linking individuals (participants in club meetings) with documents (press articles that report on the meeting). Original data comes from three major English-language newspapers in Shanghai. The method for building the corpus of press articles and for extracting name entities (persons) from this corpus is described in the "Tables" section. For constructing the network, we relied more specifically on the function “in_padagraph” developed as part of the R package enpchina, which worked in combination with the package tidygraph. The R script is available below. 

The link below gives access to an enriched version of the attendance network we built with Cytoscape. Projected in Padagraph, this enriched network contains all persons (not only Chinese, but also foreign members and non-members) mentioned in the press in connection with the Rotary Club of Shanghai. The attached graph, however, was constructed from raw data and therefore may contain errors in name entities (place name mistaken for person's name, such as "Hankow") and multiple spellings for a single person, which may potentially bias our analysis. It nevertheless provides a powerful tool for a preliminary exploration of this large-scale corpus and network composed of 11446 nodes (persons or documents) and 17864 edges.

The most striking feature is the prominence of five Chinese Rotarians who are themselves interconnected: C.T. Wang, Chang, Wu (Tiesheng), Chen (L.T. or K.P. ?) and Fong Sec. Other prominent person-nodes include Harris (American president of the club). Interestingly, no other foreign members attained the same degree of centrality the four Chinese Rotarians we just mentioned. This suggests that leading Chinese Rotarians were particularly active in the club, and even more active than the majority of foreign members, despite the foreign roots of Rotary. Further research is needed to assess the nature of their relation with the club, and what roles they performed exactly in the context of each particular event/document.