Chinese Household Registration Data of Yugan County (Jiangxi Province), Ca. 1947

Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-90-04-72194-4
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 22/9, 150 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm

Reihe: Global Economic History Series / The Quantitative Economic History of China

Population statistics are crucial for both policy and research purposes. They cover important social factors such as birth rates, labour force structure, growth, gender, and well-being. This book provides individual-level data on the Yugan county (Jiangxi Province, China) for 1947 and covers many of the above-mentioned socio-economic factors, including family size and structure, occupation, education, gender, age, and marriage.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ma, Ye

Leeuwen, Bas van

Li, Jieli

Wang, Meimei

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte

Über Autor(innen)

Ye Ma, Ph.D. (2020), the University of Groningen, is an economic historian currently working at Beijing Normal University. Her research focuses on living standards, demographic change, and industrial development in the early twentieth century.

Bas van Leeuwen, Ph.D. (2007), is a senior researcher at the International Institute of Social History. He wrote extensively on human capital, historical national accounting, market performance, and socio-economic inequality, from ancient time to the present, in Europe, China, and the Former Soviet Union area.

Jieli Li has been employed at Utrecht University and the International Institute of Social History. She wrote on Chinese economic history, global income, and inequality. Her publications include van Leeuwen, B. and J. Li (2014), "Education since 1820", in van Zanden, J., et al. (eds.), How Was Life?: Global Well-being since 1820 (OECD Publishing, Paris).

Meimei Wang, Ph.D. (2017), Renmin University, Ph.D. (2019), Utrecht University, is an economic historian who researched on Chinese economic history and Marxist Economics. Her research focuses on Chinese rural development, mining history, and the social and economic changes related to Grand Canal.