One Quarter of Humanity : : Malthusian Mythology and Chinese Realities, 1700-2000 / / Wang. Feng, James Z. LEE.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook Package Archive 1893-1999
• VerfasserIn: LEE, James Z.,; Feng, Wang.,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2022]; ©1999
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (267 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; 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
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780674040052; 9783110442212
• DOI: 10.4159/9780674040052?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Wang. Feng, James Z. LEE.

One Quarter of Humanity presents evidence about historical and contemporary Chinese population behavior that overturns much of the received wisdom about the differences between China and the West. James Lee and Wang Feng argue that there has been effective regulation of population growth in China through a variety of practices that depressed marital fertility to levels far below European standards, and through the widespread practices of infanticide and abortion. These practices and other distinctive features of the Chinese demographic and social system, they argue, led to a different demographic transition in China from the one that took place in the West.