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Home > Publications > Publications on sale > Asian Population History

Asian Population History Ts'ui-jung Liu, James Lee, David Sven Reher, Osamu Saito and Wang Feng

The study of Asian historical demography has lagged behind that of its European and American counterparts for some time. This volume serves to narrow the gap by drawing together material from scholars specializing in demography across the spectrum of Asian countries. The collection divides into four parts and contains nineteen chapters covering issues on comparative perspective, fertility, disease and mortality, and marriage and family.The geographic coverage of the chapters is also wide, etending from East Asia to South Asia, with specific emphasis on Japan, China, Taiwan, Indonesia, India, and Sri Lanka. Authors focus on a whole range of social groups, discussing how demographic issues affect and have affected both urban and rural dwellers from the seventeenth to the twentieth century This volume, which is perhaps the first to bring together a number of in-depth, specialist studies on Asian population history, should prove a useful and engaging tool for both students and academics in the fields of demography, history and Asian studies Ts'ui-jung Liu is Research Fellow and Director at the Institute of Taiwan History, Preparatory Office, Academia Sinica, Taipei. James Lee is Professor in the Division of Humanities and Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology. David Sven Reher is Professor in the School of Political Science and Sociology, universidade Complutense de Madrid. Osamu Saito is Professor at the Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi university, Tokyo. Wang Feng is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology, university of California, Irvine. 2001 - 451p. £33.75 (£45 to non members)

Table of Contents

Part I: Overview

What do we Know about Asian Population History? Comparisons of Asian and European Research
John C. Caldwell

understanding the Nature and Importance of Low-growth Demographic Regimes
Chris Wilson

South-East Asian Population History and the Colonial Impact
Anthony Reid

The Population History of South Asia from the Seventeenth to the Twentieth Centuries. An Exploration
Sumit Guha

Demographic Trends in Ludhiana District, Punjab, 1881-1981: An Exploration of Vital Registration Data in Colonial India
Tim Dyson and Monica Das Gupta

Part II: Fertility

Patterns of Nuptiality and Fertility in a Fishing Village in Southwestern Tokugawa Japan
Noriko O. Tsuya

The Level of Fertility in Tokugawa and Meiji Japan, c; 1800s-1930s: A Preliminary Analysis of the Hutterite Indices
Ken'ichi Tomobe

Indonesian Fertility Behaviour before the Transition: Searching for Hints in the Historical Record
Terence H. Hull

Trends and Fluctuations in Fertility in Sri Lanka during the First Half of the Twentieth Century
C. M. Langford

Part III: Disease and Mortality

Crisis Mortality in Seventeenth-Century Indonesia
Peter Boomgaard

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

Disease and Mortality in the History of Taiwan
Ts'ui-jung Liu and Shi-yung Liu

Smallpox and the Pattern of Mortality in Late Nineteenth-Century Taiwan
John R. Shepherd

PUBLIC Health and the Diffusion of Vaccination in Japan
Ann Bowman Jannetta

The Attenuation of Mortality Fluctuations in British Punjab and Bengal, 1870-1947
José Antonio Ortega Osona

Part IV : Marriage and Family

Nuptiality among the Qing Nobility, 1640-1900
James Lee, Wang Feng, and Danching Ruan

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

Household Structure and Demographic Factors in Pre-industrial Japan
Akira Hayami and Emiko Ochiai

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

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