Title: Positive or preventive? : reproduction in Taiwan and the Netherlands, 1850-1940 /
Authors: Zhuang, Yingzhang; Engelen, Th.; Wolf, Arthur P.
Publisher: Aksant ; Distribution in North America by Transaction Publishers,
Year: 2006
Subjects: Demography Taiwan.; Demography Netherlands.; Taiwan Population History.; Netherlands Population History.
Contents: Introduction : Malthusian realities / Theo Engelen & Arthur P. Wolf -- Quantifying the colonized : the history and significance of demographic sources from colonial Taiwan / Paul R. Katz & Chiu Cheng-lueh -- Sources for the historical demography of the Netherlands in the 19th and early 20th centuries / Jan Kok -- Two ethnographies of reproduction / Hill Gates & Marloes Schoonheim -- Burden or opportunity? Illegitimate births in the Netherlands and Taiwan / Hill Gates, Jon Kok & Sping Wang -- Fertility four ways : Dutch urban and rural and Taiwanese urban and rural / Theo Engelen & Arthur P. Wolf -- Group identity and fertility : an evaluation of the role of religion and ethnicity in the Netherlands and Taiwan / John Shepherd [and others] -- Fertility and infant and early childhood mortality : some lessons on stopping behavior from Taiwanese and Dutch cases / John R. Shepherd, Jan Kok & Hsieh Ying-hui -- Marital feritlity and birth control in rural Netherlands and Taiwan, 19th and early 20th centuries / Jan Kok, Yang Wen-shan & Hsieh Ying-hui -- Malthus on China : a brief for the received view / Arthur P. Wolf & Theo Engelen.