Supporting Data for "Essays on Chinese Ethnicity and The Rise of China: Insights from Thailand"
These datasets contain supporting data for "Essays on Chinese Ethnicity and Attitudes towards China: Insights from Thailand."
These datasets are divided into three groups.
- Interview records and verbatim transcripts
- Field notes
- Survey data
The first group was obtained from in-person interviews I conducted in Bangkok, Thailand, from July to August 2024. The total number of interviews is 46, comprising 37 ethnic Chinese Thais and nine non-ethnic Chinese Thais. On average, each interview lasts 25 minutes. The verbatim transcripts, formatted as document files, contain the exact words of the interviews, with personal identifiers of both the interviewer and interviewee filtered out.
The second group was also obtained during the interviews. In addition to audio recording, I jotted down some notes I learnt from the interviewee. All notes, except for two, were created digitally by typing on the Qualtrics platform and later downloaded as a readable dataset. The remaining two notes were created digitally by typing on Microsoft Word and saved as PDF files.
The third group was obtained online and was further divided into two dub groups. The first sub-group, i.e., the pilot batch, was collected in March 2025 and comprises 110 responses. Each response contains demographic information, attitudes towards foreign countries, and reactions to a foreign country's public diplomacy efforts. The second sub-group, i.e., the full batch, was collected in April 2025 and comprises 1118 responses. Each response contains the same information as that of the pilot batch mentioned above.
Please refer to HKU_DataSet_README.txt for further details.
