Asian Population History

, by Liu, Ts'ui-jung; Lee, James; Reher, David Sven; Saito, Osamu; Feng, Wang

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ISBN: 9780198294436 | 0198294433
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 7/12/2001

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This volume consists of three major sections on fertility, disease and mortality, and marriage and family, which together with five introductory chapters combine depth of analysis with breadth of source material.

List of Figures

Part I Overview

(104)

What do we Know about Asian Population History? Comparisons of Asian and European Research

(21)

John C. Caldwell

Understanding the Nature and Importance of Low-growth Demographic Regimes

(21)

Chris Wilson

South-East Asian Population History and the Colonial Impact

(18)

Anthony Reid

The Population History of South Asia from the Seventeenth to the Twentieth Centuries: An Exploration

(16)

Sumit Guha

Demographic Trends in Ludhiana District, Punjab, 1881-1981: An Exploration of Vital Registration Data in Colonial India

(26)

Tim Dyson

Monica Das Gupta

Part II Fertility

105

(84)

Patterns of Nuptiality and Fertility in a Fishing Village in Southwestern Tokugawa Japan

107

(31)

Noriko O. Tsuya

The Level of Fertility in Tokugawa and Meiji Japan, c. 1800s---1930s: A Preliminary Analysis of the Hutterite Indices

138

(14)

Ken'ichi Tomobe

Indonesian Fertility Behaviour before the Transition: Searching for Hints in the Historical Record

152

(24)

Terence H. Hull

Trends and Fluctuations in Fertility in Sri Lanka during the First Half of the Twentieth Century

176

(13)

C. M. Langford

Part III Disease and Mortality

189

(162)

Crisis Mortality in Seventeenth-Century Indonesia

191

(30)

Peter Boomgaard

Mortality Change and the Epidemiological Transition in Beijing, 1644-1990

221

(27)

Cameron Campbell

Disease and Mortality in the History of Taiwan

248

(22)

Ts'ui-jung Liu

Shi-yung Liu

Smallpox and the Pattern of Mortality in Late Nineteenth-Century Taiwan

270

(22)

John R. Shepherd

Public Health and the Diffusion of Vaccination in Japan

292

(14)

Ann Bowman Jannetta

The Attenuation of Mortality Fluctuations in British Punjab and Bengal, 1870-1947

306

(45)

Jose Antonio Ortega Osona

Part IV Marriage and Family

351

(90)

Nuptiality among the Qing Nobility, 1640-1900

353

(21)

James Lee

Wang Feng

Danching Ruan

Demographic Conditions and Household Formation in Chinese History: A Simulation Study

374

(21)

Zhongwei Zhao

Household Structure and Demographic Factors in Pre-industrial Japan

395

(21)

Akira Hayami

Emiko Ochiai

Marriage Patterns and Demographic Change in Sri Lanka: A Long-Term Perspective

416

(25)

Bruce Caldwell

Index

441

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Asian Population History

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