Stevan Harrell 
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.


This title is part of UC Press’s Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1996.

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

Table des matières

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

A propos de l’auteur

Stevan Harrell is Professor and Chair of the Department of Anthropology at the University of Washington and coeditor of Chinese Families in the Post-Mao Era (California, 1993).