Chinese Engineers Relational Database (CERD)

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CERD (Pelzer et al., 2021–2023) is a database of engineers from the Chinese Republican period (1912–1949).

The current public dataset includes 17,618 engineers, 663 colleges, 17,461 degrees, 9,245 workplaces, and 25,475 occupations.

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Cite this database: Pelzer, Thorben, et al., eds. (2022). "Chinese Engineers Relational Database (CERD)." Geneva, Budapest: Zenodo. http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4075601.
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