Cover illustration: Part of the eighteenth-century remake of the twelfth-century original painting Along the River During the Qingming Festival by Zhang Zeduan. The remake is created by five Qing dynasty court painters (Chen Mu, Sun Hu, Jin Kun, Dai Hong and Cheng Zhidao) and is currently in the National Palace Museum in Taipei. The painting captures the daily life of people and the landscape of the capital, Bianjing (todayâs Kaifeng) from the Northern Song period. Licensed under public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
This book was translated by Wan Hongyu, Yang Yichen, Li Mei and Kizito Tekwa from Shanghai International Studies University. The translation of the book was funded by the Chinese Fund for the Humanities and Social Sciences.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Cao, Shuji, author.
Title: The population history of China (1368-1953) / by Cao Shuji; translated by Wan Hongyu, Yang Yichen, Li Mei, Kizito Tekwa.
Description: Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2024. | Series: The quantitative economic history of China; volume 7 | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2023048780 (print) | LCCN 2023048781 (ebook) | ISBN 9789004682658 (hardback ; alk. paper) | ISBN 9789004688933 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: ChinaâPopulationâHistory.
Classification: LCC HB3654.A3 C3543 2024 (print) | LCC HB3654.A3 (ebook) | DDC 304.60951âDC23/ENG/20231019
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2023048780
LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2023048781
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ISSN 2405-870X
ISBN 978-90-04-6826-58 (hardback)
ISBN 978-90-04-68893-3 (e-book)
DOI 10.1163/9789004688933
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