Chinese Historical Microdemography

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).

• 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