Revising the Malthusian narrative: the comparative study of population dynamics in late imperial China

Article Abstract:

Chinese and European preindustrial demographic systems were considered opposing archetypes. This was because of China's population growth which was largely governed by mortality and higher than that of Europe, higher population growth contributing to a lower living standard than that of Europe and relatively weak preventive checks in comparison to Europe. Data were presented challenging the Malthusian contrast of population dynamics in late imperial China and early modern Europe. New ways of conceptualizing China's population growth and economic development were presented.

China, Analysis, Europe, Demographic aspects, Population, Malthusianism

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Nationalism, imperialism, and the international education movement in early twentieth-century Japan

Article Abstract:

The international education movement in Japan involved a conscious, organized attempt to invert the traditionally conceived relationship between education and nationalism. Proponents aimed to use education to disseminate a new type of nationalism, which involved a struggle to reconceptualize the nature of Japanese national identity. Its legacy is found in what it did and did not achieve.

Education

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Managing the truth of sex in Imperial Japan

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Issues are presented concerning the influence of the Japanese state in the late 19th and early 20th Centuries in maintaining the population's physical health. The management of the truth of sex during the Meiji period is discussed.

Health planning, Sex education

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