Colleagues interested in demographics, gender studies and Republican-era histories may well want to take a look at this innovative new volume from Oxford University Press:-
http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780199688203.do
The volume contains a chapter by renowned China historian Mark Elvin offering new, non-conventional mortality estimates for the Lower Yangzi Valley (c. 1930).
The findings have implications for our understanding of phenomena like infanticide, migration, rural indebtedness and verilocation to name but few issues.
Best
Toby
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