Data

All datasets shared on this page are freely available for academic use. Please cite the corresponding paper(s) if you use any of the data in your research.

本页分享的所有数据集均可免费用于学术研究，使用时请引用对应论文。

Chinese Character–English Spelling Two-way Crosswalk for Chinese Surnames

华人姓氏中英文双向对照数据库

A comprehensive probabilistic two-way crosswalk between Chinese surname characters and their English spellings across multiple transliteration systems and dialect groups, designed to facilitate cross-language record linkage in migration and diaspora studies.

本数据库提供华人姓氏汉字与多种拼写体系及方言音译之间的双向概率对照，旨在为华人移民研究中的跨语言数据匹配提供基础工具。

Coming soon. / 即将发布。

Citation / 引用：
Fanghao Chen, Ruichi Xiong, Xiaobo Zhang. Familiar Strangers: The Role of Diaspora Networks in Foreign Investment and Long-run Development. Journal of International Economics, forthcoming. [SSRN]

Transnational Genealogies Database

涉侨族谱地理分布数据

This dataset records the city–surname distribution of transnational genealogies preserved in the Jinan University Library. Each observation indicates how many genealogical volumes are held for a given Chinese surname in a given city, capturing the historical geographic footprint of overseas-Chinese clan networks. The data can be used to study diaspora networks, migration history, and their long-run economic effects.

本数据集记录了暨南大学图书馆馆藏涉侨族谱在城市—姓氏层面的分布情况。每条观测值反映某一城市中某一姓氏所对应的族谱卷数，刻画了海外华人宗族网络的历史地理分布特征。该数据可用于华人网络、移民史及其长期经济效应等方面的研究。

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Citation / 引用：
陈方豪, 左毅博, 龙登高. 涉侨宗族网络的经济福利效应——来自涉侨族谱的证据. 经济学(季刊), 2024, 24(5): 1704–1718. [CNKI]

Research Network

I’m fortunate to have my training supervised by Xiaobo Zhang (Guanghua School of Management at Peking University & International Food Policy Research Institute) and Loren Brandt (University of Toronto). I’m also working with Gilles Duranton (Wharton School of University of Pennsylvania & London School of Economics and Political Science & CEPR), Denggao Long (Tsinghua University), Ruichi Xiong (Wuhan University), Zhongchen Fan (Xi’an Jiaotong University), Bin Xie (Jinan University), Jiancheng Li (Guangdong University of Foreign Studies), Jingjing Ye (Zhongnan University of Economics and Law), Lixin Colin Xu (Cheung Kong School of Business), Shihe Fu (Wuhan University) and many other aspirational young scholars.

I’m affiliated with Center for Enterprise Research at Peking University and co-supervise Enterprise Survey for Innovation and Entrepreneurship in China (ESIEC), a project aiming to maintain and update a random-sampled and national-representative longitude data set of small-and-medium-sized enterprises (SME) and their entrepreneurs in China in regard to SMEs’ start-ups, operation, performance, and growth.