Two Cities, One Life: Marriage and Fertility in Lugang and Nijmegen

Theo Engelen; Hsieh Ying-Hui

doi:10.1017/9789048521012

Two Cities, One Life

Marriage and Fertility in Lugang and Nijmegen

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Theo Engelen, Hsieh Ying-Hui
Edited by J. de Jong, W. Koetsenruijter

Publisher:: Amsterdam University Press
Online publication date:: January 2021
Print publication year:: 2008
Online ISBN:: 9789048521012
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1017/9789048521012

Subjects:: Demography, Social Statistics, Sociology

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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.

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Marriage and Fertility in Lugang and Nijmegen

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Frontmatter
pp 1-4

Preface
pp 5-6

Contents
pp 7-8

1 - Two Cities, One Life: Introduction
pp 9-24

2 - East is east and west is west?: Population checks in Europe and China
pp 25-52

3 - Nuptiality: One Concept, Two Realities
pp 53-80

4 - Illegitimate Births and Bridal Pregnancy: Deviations from Societal Rules
pp 81-96

5 - Infant Mortality: ‘The Massacre of the Innocents’
pp 97-124

6 - Fertility: Malthusian Reality or Proactive Behavior?
pp 125-158

7 - Conclusion and Discussion
pp 159-166

Bibliography
pp 167-175

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