The Chinese Demographic Transition: The Case of Xiaoshan, Zhejiang Province

中国人口转型：以浙江省萧山市为例

• 批准号: 0003918
• 负责人: Stevan Harrell
• 金额: $ 6.56万
• 依托单位: University of Washington
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2001
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2001-04-15 至 2003-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0003918&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Chinese; Demographic; Transition; Case; Xiaoshan

0003918Harrell On the path of modernization most societies go through what demographers call "fertility transition", the change from large to small numbers of offspring. In an overpopulated world, few social facts are more important to understand than the local causes of fertility transition. This project by anthropological demographers at the University of Washington enhances our incomplete understanding of the fertility transition in China. It studies how socioeconomic, cultural forces have produced a particular pattern and process of fertility change. The project will establish the late imperial Chinese demographic regime, then examine fertility changes in the 20th century. The project will focus on lineage populations in Xiaoshan county, Zhejiang province. It will select lineage populations representing different local environmental variations, levels of economic development and economic specialization. It will conduct a family demographic history survey of current lineage populations as a means of studying fertility processes in the 20th century. Ethnographic and archival research will also be conducted to provide a sociocultural context as well as data on local customs pertaining to demographic processes. This project, designed to collect a combined set of survey, genealogical, ethnographic and archival data, can contribute to an in-depth understanding of the trajectories and sociocultural mechanisms of Chinese demographic change.

在现代化的道路上，大多数社会都会经历人口学家所说的“生育率转变”，即后代数量从多到少的转变。 在一个人口过剩的世界里，没有什么社会事实比了解生育率转变的当地原因更重要。 这个由华盛顿大学的人类学人口统计学家所做的项目，增强了我们对中国生育率转变的不完全理解。 它研究社会经济和文化力量如何产生特定的生育率变化模式和过程。该项目将建立中国帝国晚期的人口制度，然后研究世纪的生育率变化。 该项目将重点关注浙江省萧山县的世系人群。 它将选择代表不同地方环境变化、经济发展水平和经济专业化的世系人口。它将对目前的世系人口进行家庭人口史调查，作为研究世纪生育过程的一种手段。 还将进行人种学和档案研究，以提供社会文化背景以及与人口进程有关的地方习俗数据。 该项目旨在收集一套综合的调查、家谱、民族志和档案数据，有助于深入了解中国人口变化的轨迹和社会文化机制。