Asian Population History

by Liu, Ts'ui-jung; Lee, James; Reher, David Sven; Saito, Osamu; Feng, Wang

• ISBN13: 9780198294436
• ISBN10: 0198294433
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-07-12
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

This volume consists of three major sections on fertility, disease and mortality, and marriage and family, which together with five introductory chapters combine depth of analysis with breadth of source material.

Table of Contents

List of Figures	xi
Part I Overview	1	(104)
What do we Know about Asian Population History? Comparisons of Asian and European Research	3	(21)
John C. Caldwell
Understanding the Nature and Importance of Low-growth Demographic Regimes	24	(21)
Chris Wilson
South-East Asian Population History and the Colonial Impact	45	(18)
Anthony Reid
The Population History of South Asia from the Seventeenth to the Twentieth Centuries: An Exploration	63	(16)
Sumit Guha
Demographic Trends in Ludhiana District, Punjab, 1881-1981: An Exploration of Vital Registration Data in Colonial India	79	(26)
Tim Dyson
Monica Das Gupta
Part II Fertility	105	(84)
Patterns of Nuptiality and Fertility in a Fishing Village in Southwestern Tokugawa Japan	107	(31)
Noriko O. Tsuya
The Level of Fertility in Tokugawa and Meiji Japan, c. 1800s---1930s: A Preliminary Analysis of the Hutterite Indices	138	(14)
Ken'ichi Tomobe
Indonesian Fertility Behaviour before the Transition: Searching for Hints in the Historical Record	152	(24)
Terence H. Hull
Trends and Fluctuations in Fertility in Sri Lanka during the First Half of the Twentieth Century	176	(13)
C. M. Langford
Part III Disease and Mortality	189	(162)
Crisis Mortality in Seventeenth-Century Indonesia	191	(30)
Peter Boomgaard
Mortality Change and the Epidemiological Transition in Beijing, 1644-1990	221	(27)
Cameron Campbell
Disease and Mortality in the History of Taiwan	248	(22)
Ts'ui-jung Liu
Shi-yung Liu
Smallpox and the Pattern of Mortality in Late Nineteenth-Century Taiwan	270	(22)
John R. Shepherd
Public Health and the Diffusion of Vaccination in Japan	292	(14)
Ann Bowman Jannetta
The Attenuation of Mortality Fluctuations in British Punjab and Bengal, 1870-1947	306	(45)
Jose Antonio Ortega Osona
Part IV Marriage and Family	351	(90)
Nuptiality among the Qing Nobility, 1640-1900	353	(21)
James Lee
Wang Feng
Danching Ruan
Demographic Conditions and Household Formation in Chinese History: A Simulation Study	374	(21)
Zhongwei Zhao
Household Structure and Demographic Factors in Pre-industrial Japan	395	(21)
Akira Hayami
Emiko Ochiai
Marriage Patterns and Demographic Change in Sri Lanka: A Long-Term Perspective	416	(25)
Bruce Caldwell
Index	441