Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preliminary Material / Shuji Cao -- Chapter 2 Reinvestigating the Population of the Ming and Qing / Shuji Cao -- Chapter 3 Population of Prefectures in the Hongwu Period / Shuji Cao -- Chapter 4 The Military Population and the Population of National Minorities in the Ming Dynasty / Shuji Cao -- Chapter 5 The Population Growth and Distribution in the Ming Dynasty / Shuji Cao -- Chapter 6 The Rapid Population Decline between the Ming and Qing Dynasties / Shuji Cao -- Chapter 7 The Population of the Four Southern Provinces in the Mid-Qing Dynasty / Shuji Cao -- Chapter 8 The Population of the Prefectures in Sichuan Province in the Mid-Qing Dynasty / Shuji Cao -- Chapter 9 Population by Prefecture in Northern China in the Mid-Qing Dynasty / Shuji Cao -- Chapter 10 The Impact of the Taiping War on the Population / Shuji Cao -- Chapter 11 The Urban Population in the Hongwu Period / Shuji Cao -- Chapter 12 The Urban Population in the Late Ming Dynasty / Shuji Cao -- Chapter 13 The Urban Population in Northern China in the Mid-Qing Dynasty / Shuji Cao -- Chapter 14 Urban Population in Southern China in the Mid-Qing Dynasty / Shuji Cao -- Chapter 15 Urban Population of Shandong Province at the End of the Qing Dynasty / Shuji Cao -- Chapter 16 Urban Population at the End of the Qing Dynasty, the Examples of Zhili and Henan / Shuji Cao -- Chapter 17 Conclusion / Shuji Cao -- Appendix 1 Population and Population Density of Regions in the Ming Dynasty / Shuji Cao -- Appendix 2 The Number of Li , the Population of Inner Cities and Fu Captials in 1393 (Hongwu's 26th Year) / Shuji Cao -- 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) / Shuji Cao -- Appendix 4 Urban Population and Urbanization Rate of Individual Fu in 1580 (Wanli 8th Year) / Shuji Cao -- Appendix 5 Changes in the Population of the Individual Fu in the Late Ming and Early Qing Dynasties / Shuji Cao -- Appendix 6 Population of the Individual Fu from 1393 to 1953 / Shuji Cao -- Appendix 7 Population of Individual Fu from 1680 to 1953 / Shuji Cao -- Appendix 7 Population of Fu and Towns in the Qing Dynasty / Shuji Cao.

From 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.

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