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• catalog abstract ""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." "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."--Jacket.".
• catalog contributor b11262383.
• catalog contributor b11262384.
• catalog coverage "China Population.".
• catalog created "1999.".
• catalog date "1999".
• catalog date "1999.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "1999.".
• catalog description ""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.".
• catalog description ""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."".
• catalog description "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. App. Chinese Population Sources, 1700-2000.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [207]-239) and index.".
• catalog description "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."--Jacket.".
• catalog extent "xii, 248 p. :".
• catalog hasFormat "One quarter of humanity.".
• catalog identifier "0674639081 (alk. paper)".
• catalog isFormatOf "One quarter of humanity.".
• catalog issued "1999".
• catalog issued "1999.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press,".
• catalog relation "One quarter of humanity.".
• catalog spatial "China Population.".
• catalog spatial "China".
• catalog spatial "China.".
• catalog subject "2008 F-499".
• catalog subject "304.6/0951 21".
• catalog subject "Birth control China.".
• catalog subject "Contraception China History.".
• catalog subject "Demography China.".
• catalog subject "HB 3654.A3 L478o 1999".
• catalog subject "HB3578 .L44 1999".
• catalog subject "History, 18th Century China.".
• catalog subject "History, 19th Century China.".
• catalog subject "History, 20th Century China.".
• catalog subject "Infanticide China History.".
• catalog subject "Infanticide China.".
• catalog subject "Marriage China History.".
• catalog subject "Marriage China.".
• catalog tableOfContents "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. App. Chinese Population Sources, 1700-2000.".
• catalog title "One quarter of humanity : Malthusian mythology and Chinese realities, 1700-2000 / James Z. Lee and Wang Feng.".
• catalog type "text".