Two cities, one life : marriage and fertility in Lugang and Nijmegen / Theo Engele & Hsieh Ying-Hui.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Engelen, Th. (Theo), author.

Xie, Yinghui, author.

Contributor:

Koetsenruijter, W., editor.

Series:

Life at the extremes ; v. 3.

Life at the extremes ; v. 3

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cross-cultural studies.

Lugang Zhen (Taiwan)--Population.

Lugang Zhen (Taiwan).

Nijmegen (Netherlands)--Population.

Nijmegen (Netherlands).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (175 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Aksant, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Historical processes are the result of the behavior of countless individual actors. In this book, therefore, the authors compare the demography of the Taiwanese town Lugang and the Dutch town Nijmegen using data on the lifes of thousands of their inhabitants. The period covered is approximately 1850 to 1945. First, the standard demographic rates on nuptiality, fertility and mortality are calculated to test the Malthusian predictions on a so called 'positive' and a 'preventive' demographic regime. Next, the authors try to disentangle the individual rationality behind aggregated measures in order to find out how the inhabitants of the two towns used the one life they had. Unaware of each others existence, the people living in Nijmegen and Lu-kang had more in common than one would expect given the huge cultural differences.

Contents:

East is east and west is west? : population checks in Europe and China

Nuptiality : one concept, two realities

Illegitimate births and bridal pregnancy : deviations from societal rules

Infant mortality : "the massacre of the innocents"

Fertility : Malthusian reality or proactive behavior?

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Feb 2021).

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9786613259455

9781283259453

1283259451

9789048521012

9048521017

OCLC:

751962311