Population and demography Books

Book SynopsisThis glossary is an up-to-date research tool for the study of population in English, Japanese and German. Based on the technical literature, encyclopedias, databases and existing glossaries in the three languages listed as well as other relevant languages in which demographic research is carried out, it comprises more than 7500 technical terms accessible in three directions: English-Japanese-German, Japanese-English-German and German-Japanese-English. Scientific fields covered include social demography, population geography, political demography, economic demography, historical demography, medical demography, biodemography, mathematical demography, as well as some adjacent fields such as psychology, law, technology, religion, linguistics and education.Trade Review"...the glossary is an important research tool through the translations of such a rich array of terms into three languages. Persons working in the field of demography will come to appreciate the variety of concepts that can be associated with their discipline, while persons from other disciplines will have an easy reference to the accepted terms used in population studies." Canadian Studies in Population, Vol. 37.3-4, Fall/Winter, pp. 611-612

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Book SynopsisThis English-language volume is an edited collection of articles from the 2010 Chinese-language volume of the Green Book of Population and Labor. It examines recent developments in the Chinese demographic transition and its implications, especially for the labor market. The global financial crisis in 2008 and 2009 impacted the Chinese labor market during and after its occurrence; it hit the real economy and caused lay-offs for urban workers and a mass exodus of migrant workers from the non-agricultural workplace. The Chinese economy recovered quickly, thanks to the government’s fiscal stimulus package. It was impressive to see social protection programs implemented by the central and local governments with the interests of vulnerable people in mind. This volume intends to draw some lessons from the experiences and to discuss the trends of the labor market and social protection in the post-crisis period by focusing on three issues: policy measures, challenges to future growth, and the vulnerability of factions within the labor market.Table of ContentsCONTENTS List of Tables List of Figures Preface Acknowledgements List of Contributors Chapter One Demographic Changes During the Period of Twelfth Five-Year Plan and Predictions for Population Development Hu Ying, Cai Fang, and Du Yang Chapter Two Low Fertility and Related Theoretical Issues in China Guo Zhigang Chapter Three How China Tackled the Global Financial Crisis Cai Fang, Du Yang, and Wang Meiyan Chapter Four Public Investment and Employment: An Empirical Analysis Wang Dewen Chapter Five Growing Pains: What Employment Dilemma Does China Face at Its Lewis Turning Point? Cai Fang Chapter Six The Impact of the Financial Crisis on Employment in Small and Medium Enterprises Wu Yaowu and Du Yang Chapter Seven Changes in Industrial Location and Labor Flows in China Cai Fang, Wang Meiyan, and Qu Yue Chapter Eight Population, Industrial Development, and Employment in Chinese Urbanization Du Yang, Wang Meiyan Chapter Nine Has Labor Migration Really Not Narrowed the Rural-Urban Income Gap? Cai Fang and Wang Meiyan Chapter Ten Emission Reduction Compatible with Economic and Employment Growth Cai Fang, Du Yang, and Wang Meiyan Chapter Eleven The New Elements of China’s Labor Market in the Post-Financial-Crisis Era Cai Fang, Wang Meiyan Chapter Twelve Reform of the Hukou System and Unification of Rural-Urban Social Welfare Cai Fang Index

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Book SynopsisWhat role does diasporic Chinese media play in the process of Chinese migrants' adaptation to their new home country? With China's rise, to what extent has the expansion of its "soft power" swayed the changing identities of the Chinese overseas? A Virtual Chinatown provides a timely and original analysis to answer such questions. Using a media and communication studies approach to investigate the reciprocal relationship between Chinese-language media and the Chinese migrant community in New Zealand, Phoebe Li goes beyond conventional scholarship on the Chinese Diaspora as practised by social historians, anthropologists and demographers. Written in an accessible and reader-friendly manner, this book will also appeal to academics and students with interests in other transnational communities, alternative media, and minority politics.Trade Review"Part sociology, part history, and part media studies, Li’s book offers a fascinating window into modern migration and integration.[...] This is a book for anyone interested in the dynamics of contemporary Chinese migration and in many of the social impacts throughout the world of China’s economic and geopolitical rise." – Howard Duncan, Metropolis Project, Carleton University, in Journal of Chinese Overseas 10.1 (2014).Table of ContentsChapter One Introduction China’s New Wave of International Migration New Zealand Local Contexts New People, New Approach Diasporic Chinese Media beyond New Zealand Chapter Two Conceptualising New Zealand Chinese Media Central Concepts Towards an Analytical Framework Chapter Three Revisting the History of New Zealand Chinese and Early Chinese Newspapers Chinese Immigration: From Sojourners to Settlers Early Chinese Newspapers Rethinking Early Chinese Newspapers Chapter Four New Chinese Immigrants and Contemporary New Zealand Chinese Media New Zealand Chinese Media A New Wave of Chinese Immigration Making a PRC Chinese Community PRC Chinese and Others’ Settlement Evolution of New Chinese Media The New Chinese Community in their Own Media Chapter Five Ethnic Chinese Media during the 2005 New Zealand General Election Research Design and Background Information Phase 1: New Zealand Election in Chinese Media Phase 2: Relationship between Chinese Media and Migrants Phase 3: A Perspective from Media Personnel Summary Chapter Six Recent PRC Migrants in the Diasporic Mediasphere New Zealand Politics in Ethnic Chinese Media Recent PRC Migrants' Affinity with Conservative Parties Patriotic Sentiment Towards China Chapter Seven Conclusions New Insight into the Chinese in New Zealand Expansion of China's 'Soft Power' Chinese Media as an 'Imagined Chinatown'

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Book SynopsisThe Yearbook of International Religious Demography presents an annual snapshot of the state of religious statistics around the world. Every year large amounts of data are collected through censuses, surveys, polls, religious communities, scholars, and a host of other sources. These data are collated and analyzed by research centers and scholars around the world. Large amounts of data appear in analyzed form in the World Religion Database (Brill), aiming at a researcher’s audience. The Yearbook presents data in sets of tables and scholarly articles spanning social science, demography, history, and geography. Each issue offers findings, sources, methods, and implications surrounding international religious demography. Each year an assessment is made of new data made available since the previous issue of the yearbook.Table of ContentsContents: Preface List of Illustrations Editors and Contributors Glossary Introduction Part 1 The World by Religion Chapter 1. The World by Religion. Part 2 Religions by Region Chapter 2. Religions by Region. Part 3 Case Studies and Methods. Chapter 3. "Measuring Jewish Populations." Sergio DellaPergola Chapter 4. "Correlates of Religion and Childbearing Behavior in Nigeria." Onipede Wusu Chapter 5. "What Made Jews a Demographic Avant-Garde in Modern Europe?" Jana Vobecká Chapter 6. "The Size and Demographic Structure of Religions in Europe." Marcin Stonawski, Vegard Skirbekk, Conrad Hackett, Michaela Potančoková, and Brian Grim Chapter 7. "Integrity and the Counting of Christians in Thailand." Dwight Martin Chapter 8. "Fertility Trends by Religion in Mongolia." Thomas Spoorenberg Chapter 9. "Residential Patterns by Religion and Ethnicity in Vienna." Markus Speringer and Ramon Bauer Chapter 10. "Methodology of the Pew Research Global Religious Landscape Study." Conrad Hackett, Brian Grim, Marcin Stonawski, Vegard Skirbekk, Noble Kuriakose, and Michaela Potančoková Part 4 Data Sources Chapter 11. "Data Sources." Noble Kuriakose Index

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Book SynopsisThis English-language volume is an edited collection of articles selected from the 2011 and 2012 Chinese-language volumes of the Green Book of Population and Labor. This volume starts with a chapter that explores the trajectory and future of China's demographic changes, as well as the role population projections should play in population policy through a comparison of data from the Sixth Population Census conducted in China and the United Nations population projection. Other topics discussed in this volume include changes in fertility and their implications to the labor market; demographic transition and its contribution to economic growth; employment structure and its problems; and reform of the labor market. This volume intends to draw lessons from the experiences and discuss trends of the labor market and social protection. Chinese Research Perspectives on Population and Labor is a co-publication between Brill and Social Sciences Academic Press (China).Table of Contents1. Looking at the Future of China's Population from the Sixth National Population Census and United Nations Population Projections Cai Yong 2. Provincial Disparities in Changes in Fertility and Related Implications Niu Jianlin 3. Intergenerational Effects on Fertility and Intended Family Size: Implications for Future Fertility Change in China Zheng Zhenzhen 4. When Demographic Dividends Disappear: Growth Sustainability in China Cai Fang and Zhao Wen 5. Accumulating Human Capital for China’s Sustainable Growth Cai Fang and Wang Meiyan 6. Changes to the Employment Structure and Problems Zhang Juwei 7. Labor Market Vulnerability in Urban China Du Yang, Qu Yue, Cai Fang 8. Employment Elasticity and Its Implications for Employment Policy in the “12th Five-year Period” Qu Xiaobo 9. Changes to the Industrial Structure and Regional Migration During the 12th Five-year Plan Period Wu Yaowu 10. Wage Increase, Wage Convergence, and the Lewis Turning Point in China Cai Fang and Du Yang 11. Intensified Reform of the Labor market and Abolishment of the Rural-Urban Divide Zhang Zhanxin and Hou Huili

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Book SynopsisThe Yearbook of International Religious Demography presents an annual snapshot of the state of religious statistics around the world. Every year large amounts of data are collected through censuses, surveys, polls, religious communities, scholars, and a host of other sources. These data are collated and analyzed by research centers and scholars around the world. Large amounts of data appear in analyzed form in the World Religion Database (Brill), aiming at a researcher’s audience. The Yearbook presents data in sets of tables and scholarly articles spanning social science, demography, history, and geography. Each issue offers findings, sources, methods, and implications surrounding international religious demography. Each year an assessment is made of new data made available since the previous issue of the yearbook. The 2015 issue highlights both global and local realities in religious adherence, from the demographics of the world's atheists to the emigration of Christians from the Middle East. Other case studies include inter-religious marriage patterns in Austria, Muslim immigration to Australia, and methodological challenges in counting Hasidic Jews.Table of ContentsContributors are: Ariela Keysar, Brian Grim, Todd Johnson, Marcin Wodzinski, Raya Muttarak, Maria Rita Testa, Gina Zurlo, Yaghoob Foroutan, Marcin Stonawski, Vegard Skirbekk, Conrad Hackett, Michaela Potančoková, Phillip Connor, Peter Crossing, Juan Carlos Esparza Ochoa, María Concepción Servín Nieto

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Book SynopsisThe Yearbook of International Religious Demography presents an annual snapshot of the state of religious statistics around the world. Every year large amounts of data are collected through censuses, surveys, polls, religious communities, scholars, and a host of other sources. These data are collated and analyzed by research centers and scholars around the world. Large amounts of data appear in analyzed form in the World Religion Database (Brill), aiming at a researcher’s audience. The Yearbook presents data in sets of tables and scholarly articles spanning social science, demography, history, and geography. Each issue offers findings, sources, methods, and implications surrounding international religious demography. Each year an assessment is made of new data made available since the previous issue of the yearbook. Contributors are: Todd Johnson, Gina Zurlo, Peter Crossing, Juan Cruz Esquivel, Fortunato Mallimaci, Annalisa Butticci, Brian Grim, Philip Connor, Ken Chitwood, Vegard Skirbekk, Marcin Stonawski, Rodrigo Franklin de Sousa, Davis Brown, Juan Carlos Esparza Ochoa, and Maria Concepción Servín Nieto.Table of ContentsContents Preface to the annual series List of illustrations Editors and contributors Introduction Part I: Religious demographic data Chapter 1: The world by religion Todd M. Johnson, Gina A. Zurlo, and Peter F. Crossing Chapter 2: Religions by continent Todd M. Johnson, Gina A. Zurlo, and Peter F. Crossing Part II: Case studies and methodology Chapter 3: “Religious Beliefs and Practices in Argentina: An Approach from Quantitative Data” Juan Cruz Esquivel and Fortunato Mallimaci Chapter 4: “African Pentecostal Churches in Italy: A Troubled Presence in a Catholic Country” Annalisa Butticci Chapter 5: “Changing Religion, Changing Economies: Future Global Religious and Economic Growth” Brian J. Grim and Phillip Connor Chapter 6: “Exploring Islam in the Americas from Demographic and Ethnographic Perspectives” Ken Chitwood Chapter 7: “Faith and Health Globally” Vegard Skirbekk and Marcin Stonawski Chapter 8: “Shifting Christian Identities in Brazil: What the Numbers (Do Not) Show” Rodrigo Franklin de Sousa Chapter 9: “Religious Demographics and Democracy” Davis Brown Part III: Data sources Chapter 10: “Data Sources” Juan Carlos Esparza Ochoa and María Concepción Servín Nieto Appendices Glossary World religions by country Index

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Book SynopsisThe Yearbook of International Religious Demography presents an annual snapshot of the state of religious statistics around the world. Every year large amounts of data are collected through censuses, surveys, polls, religious communities, scholars, and a host of other sources. These data are collated and analyzed by research centers and scholars around the world. Large amounts of data appear in analyzed form in the World Religion Database (Brill), aiming at a researcher’s audience. The Yearbook presents data in sets of tables and scholarly articles spanning social science, demography, history, and geography. Each issue offers findings, sources, methods, and implications surrounding international religious demography. Each year an assessment is made of new data made available since the previous issue of the yearbook. The 2017 volume features a wide range of subjects, including religious demography in Botswana, Protestantism in Guatemala, life satisfaction in Japan, fertility rates in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, and the movement of Muslims from the Middle East to Europe. Contributors are: Todd M. Johnson, Gina Zurlo, Peter Crossing, Muhammad Haron, Rachel M. McCleary, Robert J. Barro, Kimiko Tanaka, Jeong-Hwa Ho, Nan E. Johnson, Antonius Liedhegener, Anastas Odermatt, Michaela Potančoková, Marcin Stonawski, Anna Krysińska, Anaïs Simard-Gendron, Simona Bignami, Robert Dixon, Juan Carlos Esparza Ochoa, and Maria Concepción Servín Nieto.Trade Review"The credentials of this volume’s editors and authors are impeccable and the tabulated statistics are comprehensive and detailed (...) This is an excellent and exhaustive survey and a worthy reference book for a generation of scholars and religionists in general." - Anthony J. Gittins, in: Missiology: An International Review Volume 47.1 (2019)Table of ContentsContents Preface to the annual series List of illustrations Editors and contributors Introduction Part I - Religious demographic data Chapter 1: The world by religion Todd M. Johnson, Gina A. Zurlo, and Peter F. Crossing Chapter 2: Religions by continent Todd M. Johnson, Gina A. Zurlo, and Peter F. Crossing Part II - Case studies and methodology Chapter 3: Botswana’s Religious Demographics: A Comparative Insight into its BC 2001 and BC 2011 Censuses Muhammad Haron Chapter 4: Measuring the Presence of Protestants in Guatemala, 1882–2010 Rachel M. McCleary and Robert J. Barro Chapter 5: Linking Religiosity to Life Satisfaction in Japan and the United States Kimiko Tanaka, Jeong-Hwa Ho, and Nan E. Johnson Chapter 6: Religious Affiliation and Religious Plurality in Europe: Introducing a New Approach of Estimating Country Data Based on Metadatabase-Comparison Antonius Liedhegener and Anastas Odermatt Chapter 7: How Many More Muslims? The Effect of Increased Numbers of Asylum Seekers on the Size of Muslim Populations in European Countries Michaela Potančoková, Marcin Stonawski, Anna Krysińska Chapter 8: God or the State? The Role of Religiosity and Nationalism to Explain Fertility Differentials in Israel and the Jewish Settlements of the West Bank and Gaza Strip Anaïs Simard-Gendron and Simona Bignami Chapter 9: The Demography of Australia’s Catholics: Method and Application Robert Dixon Part III - Data sources Chapter 10: Data Sources Juan Carlos Esparza Ochoa and María Concepción Servín Nieto Appendices Glossary World religions by country Index

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Book SynopsisThe Yearbook of International Religious Demography presents an annual snapshot of the state of religious statistics around the world. Every year large amounts of data are collected through censuses, surveys, polls, religious communities, scholars, and a host of other sources. These data are collated and analyzed by research centers and scholars around the world. Large amounts of data appear in analyzed form in the World Religion Database (Brill), aiming at a researcher’s audience. The Yearbook presents data in sets of tables and scholarly articles spanning social science, demography, history, and geography. Each issue offers findings, sources, methods, and implications surrounding international religious demography. Each year an assessment is made of new data made available since the previous issue of the yearbook. The 2018 volume features a wide range of subjects, including approaches to measuring religious violence, religious changes in the Indian Subcontinent, religious demography in Lebanon, Baptism and Godparenthood in Catholic Europe, the relevance of social media data for religious demographic research, and the methodological and practical challenges of measuring religiosity in Turkey. Contributors are: Todd M. Johnson, Gina Zurlo, Peter Crossing, Robert Brathwaite, J. K. Bajaj, M. D. Srinivas, Wissam Raji, Yves Rahme, Marc Zeinoun, Charbel Zeidan, Guido Alfani, Joey Marshall, Zubeyir Nisanci, Juan Carlos Esparza Ochoa, María Concepción Servín Nieto.

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Book SynopsisIn Introduction to Africana Demography: Lessons from Founders E. Franklin Frazier, W.E.B. Du Bois, and the Atlanta School of Sociology scholars from across the country wed Black Sociology with critical demography within an Africana Demography framework. Contributors speak to innovative ways to address pressing issues and have the added benefit of affording many of the scholars denied their rightful place in the sociological and demographic canons. Specifically, the book includes an introduction outlining Africana demography and chapters that provide a critique of conventional demographic approaches to understanding race and social institutions, such as the family, religion, and the criminal justice system. Contributors include: Lori Latrice Martin, Anthony Hill, Melinda Jackson-Jefferson, Maretta McDonald, Weldon McWilliams, Jack S. Monell, Edward Muhammad, Brianne Painia, Tifanie Pulley, David I. Rudder, Jas M. Sullivan, Arthur Whaley, and Deadric Williams.Table of Contents Acknowledgements  List of Figures and Tables  Notes on Contributors  Introduction  Lori Latrice Martin Part 1: Africana Demography and Migration, Fertility, and Mortality  1 Carceral Migration: an Africana Demographic Reframing of Post-release Pathways for Formerly Incarcerated Populations  Brianne Painia  2 Child Support Enforcement as Social Control: Black Fathers and Multi-partner Fertility  Maretta McDonald Part 2: Africana Demography and Policing  3 Us versus Them: “We Are More Fearful of the Police than the Actual Criminals”  Melinda Jackson-Jefferson  4 Policing the Black Community: History, Reality, and the Rudiments of Change  Edward Muhammad and Jack S. Monell  5 African Americans’ Response to Discrimination: Does Region Matter?  Jas M. Sullivan Part 3: Africana Demography and Bridging Racial Gaps  6 Rethinking Black Families in Poverty: Postcolonial Critiques and Critical Race Possibilities  Deadric Williams  7 Embodying a Hybrid Habitus: Identity Construction and Social Mobility among Working-class Black Women  Tifanie Pulley and Arthur Whaley  8 A Black Theology of Liberation: the Black Church and a Living Wage  Weldon McWilliams  9 Reducing the Achievement Gap of African Americans through a Mental Health Lens  David I. Rudder and Anthony Hill Index

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Book SynopsisThis translated volume is based on the Chinese publication Green Book of Population and Labor (No. 18). It focuses on the new era of economic growth fueled primarily by innovation and entrepreneurship, and corresponding developments in China’s employment landscape. Chapter one offers an overview of China’s new economy. Chapter two examines emerging trends in both the labor and the job markets. Changes to labor relations under the new economy are discussed in chapter three, followed by two chapters that look closely at the role China’s largest online ride-hailing service provider has played in shaping the workforce and in job creation. The final chapter reports on current policy support for innovative industries, and makes recommendations.Table of ContentsList of Figures and Tables 1 The New Economy: Concepts, Characteristics, and Their Effects on China’s Growth and Employment  Zhang Juwei, Zhao Wen, and Wang Boya 2 Economic Transformation and New Employment  Xiang Jing 3 An Analysis of the Changes to Labor Relations under the New Economy  Xie Qianyun 4 Employment and Work on Online Ride-Hailing Platforms: a Study of Didi Platform Data  Wu Qingjun, Yang Weiguo, Wang Qi, and Chen Xiaofei 5 The Role of Platform-Based Companies in Creating Employment Opportunities for Laid-Off Workers from Overcapacity Industries: a Case Study of the Didi Chuxing Platform  Zhang Chenggang 6 Policy Support System for Innovative Industries  Cai Yifei and Wang Boya Index

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Book SynopsisThis book brings together works by specialists from various areas of the social sciences to reflect on the presence of China in Portugal and in Portuguese-speaking territories. From the first Chinese coolies that migrated to the former Portuguese colonies more than 100 years ago, to the current investments along the Belt and Road Initiative, we take the pulse of this historic, social, political and economic presence and flows, that continues to renew and reinvent itself in the face of the challenges of contemporaneity.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Illustrations Abbreviations Notes on Contributors The Presence of China and the Chinese Diaspora in Portugal and ­Portuguese-Speaking Territories: An Introduction  Irene Rodrigues and Sofia Gaspar PART 1: Chinese Communities in Portugal: Mobilities, School, and Learning 1 The Silk Route of Student Mobility: Portuguese Universities’ Strategies for Attracting Chinese Students  Thais França 2 Academic Performance of Chinese Students in Portugal  Sofia Gaspar, Helena Carvalho and Teresa Seabra 3 Chinese Language Teaching in Portugal: Models, Motivations, and Challenges  Wang Jincheng and Sun Yue PART 2: Crossings between Chinese Entrepreneurship, Economy, and Ethnicity in Portugal and Macao 4 Chinese Entrepreneurship in Portugal: The interaction of Ethnic ­Resources and a Host Society’s Opportunity Structure  Catarina Reis Oliveira 5 Tourism Dynamics in Sino-Portuguese Bilateral Relations: The Case of the Chinese Outbound Market in Portugal  Jiawei Xing, Zélia Breda and Jorge Tavares da Silva 6 A Chinese Mission for Macao: To Build Bridges between China and the Portuguese-Speaking Countries  Cátia Miriam Costa PART 3: China’s Global Connections with Lusophone Countries: Emerging Geopolitical Interests 7 China’s Energy Security and Portugal in Belt and Road Initiative  Carla Fernandes 8 The Dragon and the Crocodile Revisited: The Chinese Influence in Timor-Leste  Nuno Canas Mendes 9 Connecting Connectivities: China and the Environmental Dimension of the Belt and Road Initiative in Portuguese-Speaking African Countries  Andrea Valente 10 The Impacts of Bolsonaro’s Presidency on the Brazilian-Chinese Relationship  Raquel de Caria Patrício Index

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Book SynopsisThis book draws on historical demography to elucidate the regional diversity of the Japanese family and its convergence toward an integrated national family model that heralded the modern era, providing a new image of the family in pre-industrial Japan. The volume challenges the idea of early modern (1600-1870) Japan as a monolithic nation based on the ie, – the stem-family household so often mentioned as the fundamental form of Japanese social organization and enshrined in the Meiji Civil Code – which, in fact, came into being at various locales, at various speeds in the latter half of the 18th and the earlier half of the 19th centuries. In addition, there are several chapters which examine the role of women, either centrally or tangentially. With contributions by Mary Louise NAGATA, YAMAMOTO Jun, Hiroko COSTANTINI, Stephen ROBERTSON, MIZOGUCHI Tsunetoshi, NAKAJIMA Mitsuhiro, TSUBOUCHI Yoshihiro and MORIMOTO Kazuhiko.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations List of Original Publications Notes on Contributors Introduction: Regional Diversity and the Emergence of a National Family Model at the Verge of Modernity   Ochiai Emiko (落合 恵美子) part 1 The Revival of North-Eastern Japan 1 Emergence of the Ie in North-Eastern Japan, 1720–1870   Hirai Shoko (平井 晶子) 2 Balancing Family Strategies with Individual Choice: Name Changing in North-Eastern and Central Villages   Mary Louise Nagata (永田 メアリー) 3 Absolute Primogeniture (Anekatoku) in Demographic Perspective   Yamamoto Jun (山本 準), Hiroko Costantini and Stephen Robertson 4 Marriage and Childbirth among Female Servants in a North-Eastern Village: Reconciliation between Work and Reproduction in Japanese Labour History   Ochiai Emiko (落合 恵美子) part 2 Maritime Populations of South-Western Japan 5 Tsumadoi: Visiting Marriage and Household Structure on Yakushima Island   Mizoguchi Tsunetoshi (溝口常俊) 6 Population, Marriage, and Extramarital Births in a South-Western Maritime Village   Nakajima Mitsuhiro (中島 満大) 7 The Love and Life of a Centenarian Woman: Historical Demography Meets Oral History in a Coastal Village in South-Western Japan   Ochiai Emiko (落合 恵美子) part 3 Samurai Norms and Life Courses 8 Samurai Children’s Prospects: Evidence from Tokuyama Domain   Tsubouchi Yoshihiro (坪内 良博) 9 From Farmer to Samurai: The Effect of Status Change on Demographic Behaviour and Family Life   Yamamoto Jun (山本 準), Hiroko Costantini and Stephen Robertson part 4 Registration Systems and the Creation of the Ie 10 The Notional View of the Family Expressed in Population Registers: Shūmon aratame-chō and Ninbetsu aratame-chō   Hirai Shoko (平井 晶子) 11 Ancestral Worship and Women: From “Split-Parish Households” to “Single-Temple Households”   Morimoto Kazuhiko (森本 一彦) Index

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Book SynopsisPlacemaking has become a key concept in many disciplines. Due to an increase in digitization, mobilities, migration and rapid changes to the urban environments, it is important to learn how planning and social experts practice it in different contexts. Placemaking in Practice provides an inventory of practices, reflecting on different issues related to placemaking from a pan European perspective. It brings different cases, perspectives, and results analysed under the same purpose, to advance knowledge on placemaking, the actors engaged and results for people. It is backed by an intensive review of recent literature on placemaking, engagement, methods and activism results - towards developing a new placemaking agenda. Placemaking in Practice combines theory, methodology, methods (including digital ones) and their application in a pan-European context and imbedded into a relevant historical context. Contributors are: Branislav Antonić, Tatisiana Astrouskaya,Lucija Ažman Momirski, Anna Louise Bradley, Lucia Brisudová, Monica Bocci, David Buil-Gil, Nevena Dakovic, Alexandra Delgado Jiménez, Despoina Dimelli, Aleksandra Djukic, Nika Đuho, Agisilaos Economou, Ayse Erek, Mastoureh Fathi, Juan A. García-Esparza, Gilles Gesquiere, Nina Goršič, Preben Hansen, Carola Hein, Conor Horan, Erna Husukić, Kinga Kimic, Roland Krebs, Jelena Maric, Edmond Manahasa, Laura Martinez-Izquierdo, Marluci Menezes, Tim Mavric, Bahanaur Nasya, Mircea Negru, Matej Nikšič, Jelena Maric, Paulina Polko, Clara Julia Reich, Francesco Rotondo, Ljiljana Rogac Mijatovi, Tatiana Ruchinskaya, Carlos Smaniotto Costa, Miloslav Šerý, Reka Solymosi, Dina Stober, Juli Székely, Nagayamma Tavares Aragão, Piero Tiano, Cor Wagenaar, and Emina Zejnilović

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Book SynopsisFrom 1368 to 1953, China's administrative divisions were mainly composed of counties, prefectures, and provinces. This book shows the population figures, density, and changes in the provincial population in China during this period and population figures of each major city and town and its proportion in terms of the provincial population during this period―the urbanization rate. Data in this book is drawn partly from historical sources and partly from statistical-model-based calculations. The book also includes provincial population maps in 1393, and their original statistical models, population databases, and metadata.Table of ContentsList of Tables, Diagrams, and Maps 1 Introduction 2 Reinvestigating the Population of the Ming and Qing 3 Population of Prefectures in the Hongwu Period 4 The Military Population and the Population of National Minorities in the Ming Dynasty 5 The Population Growth and Distribution in the Ming Dynasty 6 The Rapid Population Decline between the Ming and Qing Dynasties 7 The Population of the Four Southern Provinces in the Mid-Qing Dynasty 8 The Population of the Prefectures in Sichuan Province in the Mid-Qing Dynasty 9 Population by Prefecture in Northern China in the Mid-Qing Dynasty 10 The Impact of The Taiping War on the Population 11 The Urban Population in the Hongwu Period 12 The Urban Population in the Late Ming Dynasty 13 The Urban Population in Northern China in the Mid-Qing Dynasty 14 Urban Population in Southern China in the Mid-Qing Dynasty 15 Urban Population of Shandong Province at the End of the Qing Dynasty 16 Urban Population at the End of the Qing Dynasty, the Examples of Zhili and Henan 17 Conclusion Appendix 1: Population and Population Density of Regions in the Ming Dynasty Appendix 2: The Number of Li, the Population of Inner Cities and Fu Captials in 1393 (Hongwu’s 26th Year) Appendix 3: The Population of the County Headquarters (excluding Fucheng and Fuguo) and the Urbanization Rate of the Individual Fu in 1393 (Hongwu 26th Year) Appendix 4: Urban Population and Urbanization Rate of Individual Fu in 1580 (Wanli 8th Year) Appendix 5: Changes in the Population of the Individual Fu in the Late Ming and Early Qing Dynasties Appendix 6: Population of the Individual Fu from 1393 to 1953 Appendix 7: Population of Individual Fu from 1680 to 1953 Appendix 8: Population of Fu and Towns in the Qing Dynasty Glossary of Chinese Characters Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThomas Robert Malthus's reputation has lately been rehabilitated in the fields of social biology, demography, environmentalism, and economics. In the midst of this current interest and with the chance to mark the occasion of the bicentenary of the first edition of the Essay on Population (1798), the contributors to this volume take this timely opportunity to examine the historical conditions in which Malthus constructed his theory, and in which the concept of a ‘Malthusian' and ‘Neo-Malthusian' philosophy first emerged.Trade Review"…outstanding choice of contributors […] steady editorial work…" - in: The British Journal for the History of Science, Vol. 34, pt. 3, No. 122 (Sept. 2001) "…a far-ranging examination of some rarely explored topics." - in: Canadian Bulletin of Medical History, Vol. 20, No. 1 (2003), pp. 193-5Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Notes on Contributors Brian DOLAN: Introduction: Malthusian Selections 1. Brian DOLAN: Malthus's Political Economy of Health: The critique of Scandinavia in the Essay on Population 2. Timothy L. ALBORN: Boys to Men: Moral Restraint at Haileybury College 3. Roy PORTER: The Malthusian Moment 4. Robert M. YOUNG: ‘Malthus on Man - In Animals No Moral Restraint' 5. Brian YOUNG: Malthus Among the Theologians 6. Christopher HAMLIN and Kathleen GALLAGHER-KAMPER: Malthus and the Doctors: Political Economy, Medicine, and the State in England, Ireland, and Scotland, 1800-1840 7. Lesley A. HALL: Malthusian Mutations: The Changing Politics and Moral Meanings of Birth Control in Britain 8. Angus McLAREN: Reproduction and Revolution: Paul Robin and Neo-Malthusianism in France 9. Antonello LA VERGATA: Biology and Sociology of Fertility: Reactions to the Malthusian Threat, 1798-1933 Index

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Book SynopsisGENERAL INTRODUCTION TWENTY YEARS OF CHINA'S AGEING SOCIETY: ACHIEVEMENTS, CHALLENGES, AND PROSPECTS.- CHAPTER ONE: RESEARCH ON THEORY AND THOUGHT OF AGEING.- CHAPTER TWO: REVIEW AND INSPIRATION OF AGEING POLICIES.- CHAPTER THREE: GOVERNANCE OF AN AGED SOCIETY.- CHAPTER FOUR: ELDERLY ECONOMY.- CHAPTER FIVE: PENSION SECURITY INSTITUTIONAL ARRANGEMENT AND SYSTEM CONSTRUCTION.- CHAPTER SIX: CONSTRUCTION OF ELDERLY CARE SERVICE SYSTEMS.- CHAPTER SEVEN: HEALTH FOR THE ELDERLY.- CHAPTER EIGHT: REGIONAL PENSION MODE.- CHAPTER NINE: DEVELOPMENT OF ELDERLY CARE PERSONNEL.- CHAPTER TEN: CREATING LIVABLE ENVIRONMENT FOR THE ELDERLY.- CHAPTER ELEVEN: POLICY FRAMEWORK AND SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT OF FILIAL RESPECT FOR THE ELDERLY.- CHAPTER TWELVE: SMART ELDERLY CARE AND ASSISTANCE.- CHAPTER THIRTEEN: CULTURAL EDUCATION FOR THE ELDERLY.- CHAPTER FOURTEEN: SOCIAL PARTICIPATION OF THE ELDERLY.-CHAPTER FIFTEEN: INTERNATIONAL EXCHANGES AND COOPERATION.

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