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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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook Package Archive 1893-1999 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2022] ©1999 |
Year of Publication: | 2022 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (267 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- 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