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One Quarter of Humanity - Malthusian Mythology and Chinese Realities, 1700-2000 (Paperback, Revised) Loot Price: R1,289
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One Quarter of Humanity - Malthusian Mythology and Chinese Realities, 1700-2000 (Paperback, Revised): James Z. Lee, Wang Feng

One Quarter of Humanity - Malthusian Mythology and Chinese Realities, 1700-2000 (Paperback, Revised)

James Z. Lee, Wang Feng

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This book presents new evidence about historical and contemporary Chinese population behavior that overturns much of the received wisdom about the differences between China and the West first voiced by Malthus. Malthus described a China in which early and universal marriage ensured high fertility and therefore high mortality. He contrasted this with Western Europe, where marriage was late and far from universal, resulting in lower fertility and higher demographic responsiveness to economic circumstances. The result in China was thought to be mass misery as part of the population teetered on the brink of a Malthusian precipice, whereas in the West conditions were less severe.

In reality, James Lee and Wang Feng argue, there has been effective regulation of population growth in China within marriage through a variety of practices that depressed marital fertility to levels far below European standards and through the widespread practices of infanticide and abortion. Moreover, in China population control has long been primarily a consequence of collective intervention. This collective culture underlies the four distinctive features of the Chinese demographic pattern -- high rates of female infanticide, low rates of male marriage, low rates of marital fertility, and high rates of adoption -- that Lee and Wang trace from 1700 to today. These 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.

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Imprint: Harvard University Press
Country of origin: United States
Release date: December 2001
First published: December 2001
Authors: James Z. Lee • Wang Feng
Dimensions: 235 x 156 x 17mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 268
Edition: Revised
ISBN-13: 978-0-674-00709-3
Categories: Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social theory
Books > Humanities > History > Asian / Middle Eastern history > General
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Population & demography > General
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social institutions > Family & relationships > General
Books > History > Asian / Middle Eastern history > General
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LSN: 0-674-00709-3
Barcode: 9780674007093

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