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Paper on the Chinese traditional family and reproduction system in 中国社会科学

Hao Dong published a paper on the Chinese traditional family and reproduction system from an East Asian comparative perspective, 中国传统生育制度与东亚比较（1708-1913）in the leading Chinese journal in all humanities and social sciences, 《中国社会科学》 (Social Sciences in China). Here’s the announcement of the issue at the journal’s Wechat account: https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/PqXHl-WVuxtgwmzKi0GSIg

Full text at the journal’s Wechat account and CNKI China

Reference:

董浩 (Hao Dong). 2026. 中国传统生育制度与东亚比较（1708—1913）(Chinese Traditional Reproduction Systems in East Asian Comparisons). 《中国社会科学》 (Social Sciences in China). 2: 152-173.

Here is the abstract:

家庭制度与亲属抚育是刻画生育制度的重要维度，在现实社会中常具象为家庭共居结构及人口繁衍效果。亲属共居的大家庭结构在理论上利于人口繁衍，但全球经验研究结论不一，对不同社会传统生育制度的异同认识亟待加深。从东亚比较的视角，基于18世纪至20世纪初期中、日、韩三国四个历史人口户籍量化数据库的分析发现：中国人口的联合家庭制规范特征在同时期内相对更为明显；在家庭结构对个体生育的影响上，共居父母存在较普遍的助益效应，在联合家庭制规范较强的中国和韩国人口中，共居兄弟存在竞争效应，但联合家庭成员整体仍存在繁衍优势。就中国历史人口内部情况而言，联合家庭制规范强度与个体生育水平正向关联且缓和亲属负向影响，形成了传统生育制度推动人口繁衍的内生动力机制。这一机制启发我们深入理解当代中国家庭变迁与生育支持体系的关系。

Family systems and kin-based cooperative childrearing constitute key dimensions of reproduction systems, commonly manifested in co-residential family structures and reproductive outcomes. In theory, extended families characterized by kin co-residence are conducive to population reproduction, yet empirical findings from different societies remain inconsistent, underscoring the need for deeper comparative understanding of traditional reproduction systems. From an East Asian comparative perspective, this study analyzes four quantitative household registration databases drawn from historical populations in China, Japan, and South Korea between the eighteenth and early twentieth centuries. The results indicate that joint-family system norms were more pronounced in China than in Japan and South Korea during the same period. With respect to the influence of family structure on individual fertility, co-residence with parents generally exerted positive effects across populations. In Chinese and South Korean populations, where joint-family system norms were stronger, co-residence with brothers generated negative effects due to competition, though members of joint families maintained overall reproductive advantages. Within historical Chinese populations, stronger joint-family system norms were positively associated with individual fertility and mitigated negative kin effects, forming an endogenous reinforcement mechanism through which the traditional reproduction system promoted population growth. This mechanism offers important insights into the relationship between contemporary family change and the fertility support system in China.

Special issue “Inequality, economic stress, and demographic response” in Explorations in Economic History

Cameron Campbell and Tommy Bengtsson edited a special issue on “Inequality, economic stress, and demographic response” for Explorations in Economic History. With the online publication of our introduction the special issue is now complete. The papers apply methods from the original Eurasia Project comparative volumes to population register databases to examine patterns of demographic responses to social and economic context, thereby providing insight into living standards and inequality in the past. Some of the papers are by authors associated with the original Eurasia Project, making use of expanded databases covering sites in 19th century Japan, China, Italy, Belgium, and Sweden and/or investigating new topics. Other papers are by authors making use of newly constructed population register databases in other locations including Scotland, Hungary, Estonia, and South Africa, but investigating the same basic questions. The papers are revised versions of ones presented in sessions at the 2022 World Economic History Congress in Paris, France.

Here is our introduction: https://authors.elsevier.com/a/1laAL3I%7EdWl64

And here is the special issue itself: https://www.sciencedirect.com/special-issue/10PQNHCPFSB

Github repository with code for the CMGPD Public Release

We created a repository to share the STATA code that processes the original CMGPD data from the Excel spreadsheets produced by our coders and turns it into the working file that is the basis of our analysis and the public release available at ICPSR. This is intended to help users of the data better understand the process by which it went from the spreadsheets transcribed by the coders to the datasets available at ICPSR. The code for linking individuals to their kin may be of particular interest.

Newly published volume 3 of Big Data and the Study of Chinese History (大数据与中国历史研究) includes chapters by Lee-Campbell Group members

Volume 3 of Big Data and the Study of Chinese History 大数据与中国历史研究，第三辑, edited by Fu Haiyan 付海晏 of the Central China Normal University School of History and Culture 华中师范大学历史文化学院 and published by the Social Sciences Academic Press (China) 社会科学文献出版社, contains a number of chapters related to Lee-Campbell Group Projects, or by members of the Lee-Campbell Group.

Here is a link to the complete Chinese language text of the State views and Local Views paper at Weixin: https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/wGfMhYIogXHlVGwosIp5_Q

Here is an announcement of the volume at the web page of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences Institute of Modern History web page. The book should be available for order online in the coming weeks.

Chapters by Lee-Campbell Group members include the following:

An introduction by Bijia Chen to the process of constructing the CGED-Q, its current status, and its future prospects:
“中国历史官员量化数据库——清代”的建设过程、现状与前景 (陈必佳)

A Chinese translation of a paper by Cameron Campbell and James Lee comparing the recording of families in genealogies and household registers in Qing Liaoning that originally appeared in History and Computing. It shows that there were biases in genealogies beyond what has been recognized in earlier literature:
从国家和地方的角度看人口记录和行为 (康文林 李中清 翻:谌畅)

Essays by James Lee, Yuxue Ren, and Liang Chen on big data and quantitative history:
大数据与中国社会经济史 (李中清)
在定量分析与传统史学研究方法之间 (任玉雪)
如何做好的量化历史研究 (梁晨)

Two papers by Lee-Campbell Group PhD students Yang Li and Xue Qin:
金陵大学学生来源与毕业走向（1928—1937）(杨莉)
《拓务统计》与日本殖民统治(薛勤)

The volume also includes a paper by an MA Student in the Central China Normal University program in Historical Big Data, Cai Xiaoying, that uses the publicly released CGED-Q Jinshenlu 1900-1912 Public Release, and is based on a paper that she originally wrote for the Historical Big Data class that Cameron Campbell taught in Wuhan in 2019:
清末地域回避制度实施之再探 (蔡晓莹)

China Multi-Generational Panel Dataset Wins a Prize

At the 2020 Chinese Digital Humanities Annual Meeting (中国数字人文年会), the China Multi Generational Panel Dataset 中国多世代人口数据库 CMGPD was awarded the inaugural “最佳题材奖” Prize.  This is the 14th prize or similar recognition awarded to Lee-Campbell group research projects and our first for something other than a book or article.  See Publications and Prizes for a complete list.

Lee-Campbell Group celebrates Xiao Xing’s retirement and contributions

 

James Lee and Xiao Xing

On December 13, 2019, the Lee-Campbell Group held a dinner in Beijing in honor of Xiao Xing, who retired in 2018 after working with us for 20 years.

Xiao Xing was the first coder we engaged in mainland China in 1998 after we decided to move our data entry there. She helped enter material for many of our databases, including but not limited to the CMGPD-LN, CMGPD-SC and more recently the CGED-Q. She also helped with the training of new coders. Her feedback also played a role in the specification of protocols for data entry.

James Lee, Cameron Campbell, Bijia Chen and our coders in Beijing.

It has been a tremendous pleasure to work with Xiao Xing for two decades. We are grateful for all of her contributions and wish her the best in her retirement.

 

Paper on interethnic marriage during the Qing designated “Editor’s Choice” by the journal Demographic Research

The paper “Interethnic marriage in Northeast China, 1866-1913” co-authored by current Lee-Campbell group PhD student Bijia Chen, Lee-Campbell group PhD graduate Dong Hao (now an Assistant Professor at Peking University) and Cameron Campbell that was published this year in Demographic Research has been named Editor’s Choice by the journal’s editorial board as one of the best papers published in volume 38. The paper examines patterns of intermarriage between Han and Manchu in a frontier population in northeast China from the mid-19th century to the beginning of the 20th century. It finds that intermarriage between the two groups was not uncommon and also increased over time. The chances of intermarriage depended on village and family context as well as individual socioeconomic and demographic characteristics. The article is available Open Access here:

https://www.demographic-research.org/volumes/vol38/34/default.htm

The complete list of Editor’s Choice papers is available here:

https://www.demographic-research.org/volumes/editors_choice.htm