This work presents evidence about the historical and contemporary Chinese population behaviour that overturns much of the received wisdom about the differences between China and the West first voiced by Malthus, who described a China in which early and universal marriage ensured high fertility and higher demographic responsiveness to economic circumstances.
- ISBN10 0674639081
- ISBN13 9780674639089
- Publish Date 29 October 1999
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 9 June 2010
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Harvard University Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 254
- Language English