Suchergebnisse

Introduction: Seeking status, avoiding shame -- Chapter 1. The Qing conquest and footbinding -- Chapter 2. The Taiwan Census of 1905 -- Chapter 3. The 1915 Prohibition -- Chapter 4. Footbinding for marriage -- Chapter 5. Regional variations among the Hoklo Fujianese -- Chapter 6. Women's labor in agriculture -- Chapter 7. Women's labor in handicrafts -- Chapter 8. Banner women and civilian women in the Northeast -- Conclusion: The tyranny of fashion -- Notes -- Chinese character glossary

Historical demographers since Malthus have characterized the West-European and Chinese demographic regimes as systems under low and high pressure, respectively. This volume examines the operation of the positive check at the two ends of the Eurasian continent by taking the Netherlands and Taiwan as representatives of the West-European and Chinese mortality regimes

Historical demographers since Malthus have characterized the West-European and Chinese demographic regimes as systems under low and high pressure, respectively. This volume examines the operation of the positive check at the two ends of the Eurasian continent by taking the Netherlands and Taiwan as representatives of the West-European and Chinese mortality regimes.