Asian Population History

Erscheinungsjahr 2001
ISBN: 978-0-19-829443-6
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 463 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 857 g

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, extending 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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Liu, Ts'ui-Jung

Lee, James

Reher, David Sven

Saito, Osamu

Feng, Wang

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Wirtschaftsstatistik, Demographie
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Humangeographie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, Formalen Wissenschaften & Technik
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wissenschafts- und Universitätsgeschichte
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Geschichte der Human- und Sozialwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Demographie, Demoskopie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- I. Overview

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

- 2: Chris Wilson: Understanding the Nature and Importance of Low-growth Demographic Regimes

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

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

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

- II. Fertility

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

- 7: Ken'ichi Tomobe: The Level of Fertility in Tokugawa and Meiji Japan c. 1801-1930

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

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

- III. Disease and Mortality

- 10: Peter Boomgaard: Crisis Mortality in Seventeenth Century Indonesia

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

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

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

- 14: Ann Bowman Jannetta: Public Health and the Diffusion of Vaccination in Japan

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

- IV. Marriage and Family

- 16: James Lee, Wang Feng, and Ruan Danching: Nuptiality among the Quing Nobility, 1600-1900

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

- 18: Akira Hayami and Emiko Ochiai: Family Patterns and Demographic Factors in Pre-Industrial Japan

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

Über Autor(innen)

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, Universidad 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.