One Quarter of Humanity : : Malthusian Mythology and Chinese Realities, 1700-2000 / / 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 th...

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Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2022]
©1999
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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505 0 0 |t Frontmatter --   |t Contents --   |t I Mythologies --   |t 1 Introduction --   |t 2 Malthusian Myths --   |t II Realities --   |t 3 Subsistence --   |t 4 Mortality --   |t 5 Marriage --   |t 6 Fertility --   |t III Implications --   |t 7 System --   |t 8 Society --   |t 9 Demography, Ideology, and Politics --   |t Appendix: Chinese Population Sources, 1700-2000 --   |t Notes --   |t References --   |t Index 
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