Asian Population History

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

International Studies in Demography

The first attempt to bring together studies on Asian population history in one volume
Covers a wide geographic area and a long time span
Contains ample information for comparative study

Asian Population History

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

International Studies in Demography

Description

The study of Asian historical demography has lagged behind that of its European and American counterparts for some time. This volume serves to narrow the gap by drawing together material from scholars specializing in demography across the spectrum of Asian countries. The collection divides into four parts and contains nineteen chapters covering issues on comparative perspective, fertility, disease and mortality, and marriage and family. The geographic coverage of the chapters is also wide, extending from East Asia to South Asia, with specific emphasis on Japan, China, Taiwan, Indonesia, India, and Sri Lanka. Authors focus on a whole range of social groups, discussing how demographic issues affect and have affected both urban and rural dwellers from the seventeenth to the twentieth century.

This volume, which is perhaps the first to bring together a number of in-depth, specialist studies on Asian population history, should prove a useful and engaging tool for both students and academics in the fields of demography, history, and Asian studies.

Asian Population History

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

International Studies in Demography

I. Overview
1:What do we Know about Asian Population History? Comparisons of Asian and European Research, John C. Caldwell
2:Understanding the Nature and Importance of Low-growth Demographic Regimes, Chris Wilson
3:South-East Asian Population History and the Colonial Impact, Anthony Reid
4:The Population History of South Asia from the Seventeenth to the Twentieth Centuries: An Exploration, Sumit Guha
5:Demographic Trends in Ludhiana District, Punjab, 1881-1981: An Exploration of Vital Registration Data in Colonial India, Tim Dyson and Monica Das Gupta
II. Fertility
6:Patterns of Nuptiality and Fertility in a Fishing Village in Southwestern Tokugawa Japan, Noriko O. Tsuya
7:The Level of Fertility in Tokugawa and Meiji Japan c. 1801-1930, Ken'ichi Tomobe
8:Indonesian Fertility Behaviour before the Transition: Searching for Hints in the Historical Record, Terence H. Hull
9:Trends and Fluctuations in Fertility in Sri Lanka during the First Half of the Twentieth Century, C. M. Langford
III. Disease and Mortality
10:Crisis Mortality in Seventeenth Century Indonesia, Peter Boomgaard
11:Mortality Change and the Epidemiological Transition in Beijing, 1644-1990, Cameron Campbell
12:Disease and Mortality in the History of Taiwan, Ts'ui-jung Liu and Shi-yung Liu
13:Smallpox and the Pattern of Mortality in Late Nineteenth Century Taiwan, John R. Shepherd
14:Public Health and the Diffusion of Vaccination in Japan, Ann Bowman Jannetta
15:The Attenuation of Mortality Fluctuations in British Punjab and Bengal, 1870-1947, Jose Antonio Ortega Osona
IV. Marriage and Family
16:Nuptiality among the Quing Nobility, 1600-1900, James Lee, Wang Feng, and Ruan Danching
17:Demographic Conditions and Household Formation in Chinese History: A Simulation Study, Zhongwei Zhao
18:Family Patterns and Demographic Factors in Pre-Industrial Japan, Akira Hayami and Emiko Ochiai
19:marriage Patterns and Demographic Change in Sri Lanka: A Long-Term Perspective, Bruce Caldwell

Asian Population History

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

International Studies in Demography

Author Information

Edited by Ts'ui-jung Liu, Research Fellow and Director, Institute of Taiwan History, Academia Sinica, Taipei, James Lee, Professor, Division of Humanities and Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology, David Sven Reher, Professor in the School of Political Science and Sociology, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Osamu Saito, Professor, Hitotsubashi University, and Wang Feng, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, University of California

Contributors:

John C. Caldwell
Chris Wilson
Anthony Reid
Sumit Guha
Tim Dyson and Monica Das Gupta
Noriko O. Tsuya
Terence H. Hull
C. M. Langford
Peter Boomgaard
Cameron Campbell
Ts'ui-jung Liu and Shi-yung Liu
John R. Shepherd
Ann Bowman Jannetta
Jose Antonio Ortega Osona
James Lee, Wang Feng, and Ruan Danching
Zhongwei Zhao
Akira Hayami and Emiko Ochiai

Asian Population History

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

International Studies in Demography

Reviews and Awards

"The volume deserves to be considered as a distinct and much-needed step forward towards developing and consolidating Asian historical demography and in placing demographic processes in these regions in a global comparative perspective." - The Economic History Review

"The greatest strength of this book lies in the authors' meticulous attempts at unearthing, stylizing, standardizing, and interpreting the mass of historical information on the demographic phenomena in many different Asian countries." - The Economic History Review