Asian Population History

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. Contributors to this volume - 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