One Quarter of Humanity
Malthusian Mythology and Chinese Realities, 1700-2000
Published on 1. July 2009
267 pages
978-0-674-04005-2 (ISBN)
Description
The authors argue that there has been effective regulation of population growth in China through practices that depressed marital fertility to levels far below European standards, and through widespread infanticide and abortion. These practices contributed to a different demographic transition in China from the one that took place in the West.
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Edition
Digital original
Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge, MA; London
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
US School Grade: College Graduate Student
Edition type
Digital original
ISBN-13
978-0-674-04005-2 (9780674040052)
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James Z. Lee | Wang Feng
One Quarter of Humanity
Malthusian Mythology and Chinese Realities, 1700-2000
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12/2001
Harvard University Press
€63.34
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James Z. Lee | Feng Wang | Wang Feng
One Quarter of Humanity
Malthusian Mythology and Chinese Realities, 1700-2000
Book
10/1999
Harvard University Press
€84.42
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Persons
James Z. Lee is Associate Professor of Chinese History at the California Institute of Technology. Wang Feng is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of California at Irvine.
Content
Contents I. Mythologies 1. Introduction 2. Malthusian Myths II. Realities 3. Subsistence 4. Mortality 5. Marriage 6. Fertility III. Implications 7. System 8. Society 9. Demography, Ideology, and Politics Appendix: Chinese Population Sources, 1700-2000 Notes References Index
