Chinese Historical Microdemography

Using local studies to answer global questions this compilation challenges traditional notions concerning historical Chinese population trends. Genealogies epitaphs and household registers are some of the local and primary materials used to examine the important issues of fertility mortality family structure and migration patterns.

Introduction: Microdemography and the Modeling of Population Process in Late Imperial China
Marriage among the Song Elite
Fertility and Population Growth in the Lineages of Tongcheng County 1520-1661
A Comparison of Lineage Populations in South China ca. 1300-1900
Demographic Constraint and Family Structure in Traditional Chinese Lineages ca. 1200-1900
Marriage Mortality and the Developmental Cycle in Three Xiaoshan Lineages
A Century of Mortality in Liaoning
Migration in Two Minnan Lineages in the Ming and Qing Periods