Chinese Historical Microdemography

Stevan Harrell

• Publisher: University of California Press
• Year: 2023
• ISBN:
  9780520914001
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Ciencias sociales
• Subtopic: Demografía

Using local studies to answer global questions, this compilation challenges traditional notions concerning historical Chinese population trends. Genealogies, epitaphs, and household registers are some of the local and primary materials used to examine the important issues of fertility, mortality, family structure, and migration patterns. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1996.
Using local studies to answer global questions, this compilation challenges traditional notions concerning historical Chinese population trends. Genealogies, epitaphs, and household registers are some of the local and primary materials used to examine the

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• CONTENTS 1
• TABLES
• ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
• ONE Introduction: Microdemography and the Modeling of Population Process in Late Imperial China
• TWO Marriages among the Song Elite
• THREE Fertility and Population Growth in the Lineages of Tongcheng County, 1520-1661
• FOUR A Comparison of Lineage Populations in South China, ca. 1300-1900
• FIVE Demographic Constraint and Family Structure in Traditional Chinese Lineages, ca. 1200-1900
• SIX Marriage, Mortality, and the Developmental Cycle in Three Xiaoshan Lineages
• SEVEN A Century of Mortality in Rural Liaoning, 1774-1873
• EIGHT Migration in Two Minnan Lineages in the Ming and Qing Periods
• GLOSSARY OF CHINESE TERMS
• GLOSSARY OF DEMOGRAPHIC TERMS
• REFERENCES
• CONTRIBUTORS
• INDEX