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

[00:39 . 18]哈雷尔在现代化的道路上，大多数社会都会经历人口学家所说的“生育过渡”，即后代数量从多到少的变化。在一个人口过剩的世界里，没有什么社会事实比了解生育过渡的当地原因更重要。华盛顿大学人类学人口统计学家的这个项目加强了我们对中国生育转变的不完整理解。它研究社会经济、文化力量是如何产生生育率变化的特定模式和过程的。该项目将建立中国帝国晚期的人口制度，然后研究20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口。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血统人口。它将对目前的血统人口进行家庭人口历史调查，作为研究20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有关人口进程的当地习俗的数据。该项目旨在收集调查、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。

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.