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Wang Feng & James Z. Lee
One Quarter of Humanity [EPUB ebook]
Malthusian Mythology and Chinese Realities, 1700 2000

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The authors argue that there has been effective regulation of population growth in China through practices that depressed marital fertility to levels far below European standards, and through widespread infanticide and abortion. These practices contributed to a different demographic transition in China from the one that took place in the West.

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Format EPUB ● Pages 267 ● ISBN 9780674040052 ● Publisher Harvard University Press ● Published 2009 ● Downloadable 6 times ● Currency EUR ● ID 2717018 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM

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