West China Missionary Birth Locations by Percentage (n498)
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Title
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West China Missionary Birth Locations by Percentage (n498)
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Identifier
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DS_0010
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Description
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Bar chart of missionary birth nations based on a dataset of West China missionaries’ biographic information created for the Imaginaries and Modernities among West China Missionaries digital repository and collaborative research environment.
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Commentary
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The birth location data in this chart has been researched and gathered from published biographies, interviews with family members, and archival documents. It represents the actual birthplaces for the subset of 498 missionaries for whom we were able to collect this detailed information. In contrast, the birth data analyzed from the WCMAB 1926 list could only be surmised from the nation where the mission society has its headquarters (see Related item).
Due to the networked nature of this data, there is a disproportionately high number of Canadians, as compared to the WCMAB 1926 data. However, both sets of data make it amply clear that Canadians were numerically dominant. The great advantage to the precision of the current data is that it highlights the intergenerational dimension of the movement by showing the relatively high percent of missionaries born in China.
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Creator
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Cory Willmott
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Date Created
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2024
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Provenance
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Original scholarship by Cory Willmott.
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Publisher
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SIUE
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Record Date
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2024-11-06
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Contributor
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Cory Willmott
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Type
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Dataset
Dataset of Networked West China Missionaries
