Regional Systems and the Modern Transformation of Agrarian Societies: Population and Development in France, Japan, and China

本项目采用空间差异化模型， 分析三个农业社会的现代转型- 法国、日本和中国-- “发展时期”（法国1760-1896年，日本1800-1926年， 1842-1990年（中国）。 研究小组，一位人类学家， 一个地理学家，一个人口学家，一个历史学家，将遵循一个 比较研究设计，以提高我们的知识 重要的跨学科问题： 人口过程和经济发展的空间和时间。 使用分类量化数据和区域系统 方法，研究人员将完成对每个 国家的区域结构，概念化为一个等级制度， 中心地区及其内部差异化 ”““对，“然后继续测试有关的命题 人口与发展。 然后，在三个可比较的分区域， （以波尔多、名古屋和宁波为中心）他们将复制 在层次结构的较低级别进行分析， 纵向研究，追踪现代创新的扩散 向下的空间层次。 在选定的地方 在每个目标次区域内，它们将使用 历史民族志方法将分析扩展到 村级。 该项目预计将展示分析能力， 区域系统模型，揭示了其广泛的实用性 社会科学研究的范围。

This project employs a model of spatial differentiation to analyze the modern transformation of three agrarian societies - France, Japan, and China -- during comparable spans of "development time" (1760-1896 for France, 1800-1926 for Japan, and 1842-1990 for China). The research team, an anthropologist, a geographer, a demographer, and an historian, will follow a comparative research design to advance our knowledge of an important interdisciplinary issue: the interaction between population processes and economic development in space and time. Using disaggregated quantitative data and regional systems methodology, the researchers will complete an analysis of each country's regional structure, conceptualized as a hierarchy of central places and of their internally differentiated hinterlands, and proceed to test propositions concerning population and development. Then, in three comparable subregions (centered on Bordeaux, Nagoya, and Ningbo) they will replicate the analysis at lower levels of the hierarchy and pursue longitudinal studies, tracing the diffusion of modern innovations downward through the spatial hierarchy. In selected local systems within each of the targeted subregions, they will use the methods of historical ethnography to extend the analysis to the village level. The project is expected to demonstrate the analytical power of the regional systems model, revealing its utility for a wide range of research in the social sciences.