Zhongwei Zhao
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3594626 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Zhongwei Zhao |
| NOMBRES | Zhongwei |
| APELLIDO | Zhao |
| FIRMA | ZHAO Z |
| AFILIACIONES | Australian National University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6175-5664 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 34 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 159 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 33 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1994 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2021 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
Recent fertility changes in Mongolia
Between 1990 and 2015, several post-communist countries experienced a decline in fertility, followed by a rise in the period fertility rate of roughly one child per woman. Mongolia is a good case-in-point. Its period fertility dropped further after the demise of socialism in 1990 but has increased again since 2005 and fluctuated around 3.0 children per woman in recent years. Political factors have been suggested as the explanation of these change…
Major Socioeconomic Driving Forces of Improving Population Health in China
China's post-Cultural-Revolution reform generated rapid economic growth. But it also brought about major negative changes, especially in the early stage, which jeopardized population health and mortality gains. Nonetheless, improvements continued. China had achieved the Millennium Development Goal target 4 of reducing under-5 mortality by two-thirds well before the target year of 2015. Life expectancy continued to rise and reached 76.6 years by 2…
Socioeconomic Factors Have Been the Major Driving Force of China’s Fertility Changes Since the Mid-1990s
Fertility decline had already started in China's urban areas in the 1950s This decline might have followed a route similar to that found in many countries if the famine of 1958-1961 and the nationwide birth control (or birth planning, as it is called in China) program launched in the early 1970s had not taken place. These events, the latter in particular, have considerably altered the trajectory of China's fertility change. Largely for this reaso…
Far Below Replacement Fertility in Urban China
China’s urban population has experienced rapid fertility decline over the past six decades. This drastic change will have a significant impact on China’s demographic, social and economic future. However, the patterns and characteristics of urban China’s fertility decline have not been systematically examined. This study analyses the trends and age patterns of fertility in urban China since the 1950s, and summarizes the major characteristics of re…
Routledge Handbook of Asian Demography
Most Asian populations are ageing, but the degree varies considerably. Patterns of ageing since 1950 show six relatively homogeneous geographically-defined groups. The causes of ageing are demographic transition and emigration. Rapid economic development and demographic transition are associated with advanced ageing, while warfare and slow development are associated with delayed demographic transition and reverse ageing. The consequences of popul…
Closing a Sociodemographic Chapter of Chinese History
At its recent Fifth Plenary Session held in Beijing, the Eighteenth Central Committee of the Communist Party of China decided to abolish the one-child policy and allow all couples to have two children, thus closing an important chapter of China's social and demographic history. Recent fertility trends make it clear why it is urgent to abandon this policy. Census and survey data show that China's TFR had already fallen below replacement in 1991. S…
Could changes in reported sex ratios at birth during China's 1958-1961 famine support the adaptive sex ratio adjustment hypothesis
The adaptive sex ratio adjustment hypothesis suggests that when mothers are in poor conditions the sex ratio of their offspring will be biased towards females. Major famines provide opportunities for testing this hypothesis because they lead to the widespr
The Demography of China's 1958-61 Famine
Démographie de la famine de 1958 à 1961 en Chine
Une des plus grandes famines de l'histoire de l'humanité a eu lieu en Chine il y a cinquante ans, provoquant un nombre énorme de décès dans plusieurs régions entre 1958 et 1961. Bien que les causes, l'importance et les impacts de la catastrophe aient été progressivement analysés dans les dernières décennies, de nombreuses questions méritent encore d'être examinées. L'article vise à enrichir notre connaissance de la démographie de la grande famine…
China’s far below replacement fertility and its long-term impact
The Chinese government conducted its sixth national census in 2010 and released its major results in April 2011. According to the National Bureau of Statistics the quality of the census was very high. Although the currently released census results cons
Susan Greenhalgh
La baisse récente de la fécondité en Chine à partir d'une nouvelle reconstitution statistique
Les chercheurs étudiant la fécondité chinoise se trouvent dans une situation étrange depuis le début des années 1990. Alors que les nombreux recensements, enquêtes de fécondité et enquêtes démographiques annuelles fournissent suffisamment de données pour permettre des travaux approfondis sur la baisse récente de la fécondité, le sous-enregistrement et les incohérences dont souffrent de plus en plus les principales données font obstacle à de telle…
China's Recent Fertility Decline
Les chercheurs étudiant la fécondité chinoise se trouvent dans une situation étrange depuis le début des années 1990. Alors que les nombreux recensements, enquêtes de fécondité et enquêtes démographiques annuelles fournissent suffisamment de données pour permettre des travaux approfondis sur la baisse récente de la fécondité, le sous-enregistrement et les incohérences dont souffrent de plus en plus les principales données font obstacle à de telle…
Changes in household formation and composition in China since the mid-twentieth century
Fertility, Family Planning and Population Policy in China . Dudley L. Poston Jr. , Che-Fu Lee , Chiung-Fang Chang , Sherry L. McKibben , Carol S. Walther
Les tables types de mortalité des Nations unies de 1982
La Division de la Population des Nations unies a publié en 1982 une série de tables types de mortalité pour les pays en développement. Elles ont été vite adoptées et largement utilisées, dans l’enseignement comme dans la recherche en démographie. Pourtant, un certain nombre de questions relatives à leur interprétation et à leur utilisation n’ont toujours pas reçu de réponse satisfaisante. Cet article examine les évolutions de la mortalité dans le…
French and German Abstracts
Grâce aux progrès des études de démographie historique, il a été peu à peu reconnu que le taux de fécondité des familles de la Chine historique est resté fort modéré par rapport aux taux élevés connus en d'autres lieux. Mais ce qui est encore objet de débat, c'est de savoir si les Chinois avaient ou non pratiqué intentionnellement un contrôle de la taille de leurs familles. Dans cet article, l'auteur évoque d'abord, succinctement, l’état actuel d…
Towards a better understanding of past fertility regimes
Thanks to the progress that has been made in the study of population history, it has been gradually accepted that fertility in historical China was only moderate in comparison with the recorded high fertility. However, scholars still disagree on whether the Chinese could have intentionally controlled their family size. This article first summarizes recent findings about fertility patterns in historical China. Then the author provides further evid…
Income Inequality, Unequal Health Care Access, and Mortality in China
China made great progress in reducing mortality between 1950 and 1980 when its life expectancy at birth increased from approximately 35 to more than 65 years. Although China has achieved further reductions in mortality under rapid economic growth since that period, the profound socioeconomic transformation has brought about some negative changes in health care services, such as the collapse of the Cooperative Medical System in rural areas, that h…
Reexamining China's Fertility Puzzle
China's fertility level has become a matter of considerable debate since the early 1990s. Despite the widespread concern over data quality, a review of the literature reveals little systematic examination of how fertility data are collected, what specific problems they pose, and how they have been used in demographic research. This article examines five major fertility data sources and identifies problems in producing and using fertility data and…
Mortality Transition in East Asia
East Asia has experienced a rapid mortality decline in recent history. Its life expectancy at birth has increased by about 30 years in the last half century. This paper analyses data collected from Hong Kong, Japan, Korea, Mainland China, and Taiwan. It provides a systematic examination of long-term mortality trends, their age patterns and sex differentials. While mortality transitions in these populations took place in different times and under …
The Far Eastern pattern of mortality is not a unique regional mortality model
In a paper published in this journal last year I questioned the validity of the so-called Far Eastern pattern of mortality as a unique regional mortality model. In her response Noreen Goldman makes three major points. First the Far Eastern mortality pattern as originally formulated by her differs from that defined by the United Nations Population Division. Second the method used in my analysis is different from that of hers and not effective in d…
On the Far Eastern pattern of mortality
Since the early 1980s, it has been accepted widely that there is a Far Eastern pattern of mortality, a pattern characterized by excessively high death rates among older men relative to death rates among younger men and among women. It has been regarded as a unique regional mortality pattern, applying primarily to Far Eastern populations. A re-examination of the mortality data of some Far Eastern populations reveals that changes in both age patter…
Fertility Control in China's Past
A decomposition of immigrant divorce rates in Australia
Reexamining China's Fertility Puzzle
China's fertility level has become a matter of considerable debate since the early 1990s. Despite the widespread concern over data quality, a review of the literature reveals little systematic examination of how fertility data are collected, what specific problems they pose, and how they have been used in demographic research. This article examines five major fertility data sources and identifies problems in producing and using fertility data and…
Income Inequality, Unequal Health Care Access, and Mortality in China
China made great progress in reducing mortality between 1950 and 1980 when its life expectancy at birth increased from approximately 35 to more than 65 years. Although China has achieved further reductions in mortality under rapid economic growth since that period, the profound socioeconomic transformation has brought about some negative changes in health care services, such as the collapse of the Cooperative Medical System in rural areas, that h…
Chinese genealogies as a source for demographic research
Genealogy is the written record of family or lineage members descended from a common ancestor or ancestors. These materials have long been used by demographers in their investigation of past demographic behaviour. Most available genealogies, however, are
Deliberate Birth Control Under a High-Fertility Regime
Over the past 30 years some of the most rapid fertility declines have occurred in populations of Chinese origin even in Chinas rural population. While socioeconomic development may have provoked and supported fertility decline in Singapore Hong Kong Taiwan and some of mainland Chinas major cities it cannot explain comparable declines in Chinese populations in Malaysia Indonesia and the Philippines where levels of socioeconomic development are gen…
Socioeconomic Factors Have Been the Major Driving Force of China’s Fertility Changes Since the Mid-1990s
Fertility decline had already started in China's urban areas in the 1950s This decline might have followed a route similar to that found in many countries if the famine of 1958-1961 and the nationwide birth control (or birth planning, as it is called in China) program launched in the early 1970s had not taken place. These events, the latter in particular, have considerably altered the trajectory of China's fertility change. Largely for this reaso…
Closing a Sociodemographic Chapter of Chinese History
At its recent Fifth Plenary Session held in Beijing, the Eighteenth Central Committee of the Communist Party of China decided to abolish the one-child policy and allow all couples to have two children, thus closing an important chapter of China's social and demographic history. Recent fertility trends make it clear why it is urgent to abandon this policy. Census and survey data show that China's TFR had already fallen below replacement in 1991. S…
China’s far below replacement fertility and its long-term impact
The Chinese government conducted its sixth national census in 2010 and released its major results in April 2011. According to the National Bureau of Statistics the quality of the census was very high. Although the currently released census results cons
Mortality Transition in East Asia
East Asia has experienced a rapid mortality decline in recent history. Its life expectancy at birth has increased by about 30 years in the last half century. This paper analyses data collected from Hong Kong, Japan, Korea, Mainland China, and Taiwan. It provides a systematic examination of long-term mortality trends, their age patterns and sex differentials. While mortality transitions in these populations took place in different times and under …
Long-term Mortality Patterns in Chinese History
Human populations have lived on the earth for millions of years, yet the study of population history only began to be established in the mid-twentieth century. In spite of the considerable progress in the study of historical demography which has since been made, there have been hardly any detailed studies of fertility and mortality before the sixteenth century. This study, by analysing a set of Chinese genealogies, examines long-term mortality pa…
The Demography of China's 1958-61 Famine
Changes in household formation and composition in China since the mid-twentieth century
Towards a better understanding of past fertility regimes
Thanks to the progress that has been made in the study of population history, it has been gradually accepted that fertility in historical China was only moderate in comparison with the recorded high fertility. However, scholars still disagree on whether the Chinese could have intentionally controlled their family size. This article first summarizes recent findings about fertility patterns in historical China. Then the author provides further evid…
On the Far Eastern pattern of mortality
Since the early 1980s, it has been accepted widely that there is a Far Eastern pattern of mortality, a pattern characterized by excessively high death rates among older men relative to death rates among younger men and among women. It has been regarded as a unique regional mortality pattern, applying primarily to Far Eastern populations. A re-examination of the mortality data of some Far Eastern populations reveals that changes in both age patter…
Demographic Conditions and Multi-generation Households in Chinese History. Results from Genealogical Research and Microsimulation
The large multi-generation household has been a popular subject in the study of Chinese social history. This study compares outcomes of computer micro-simulation with results from genealogical research, and is particularly concentrated on the potential pattern of multi-generation co-residence in the past. On the basis of such a comparison, questions concerning the impact of demographic conditions on the formation and composition of large multi-ge…
China's Recent Fertility Decline
Les chercheurs étudiant la fécondité chinoise se trouvent dans une situation étrange depuis le début des années 1990. Alors que les nombreux recensements, enquêtes de fécondité et enquêtes démographiques annuelles fournissent suffisamment de données pour permettre des travaux approfondis sur la baisse récente de la fécondité, le sous-enregistrement et les incohérences dont souffrent de plus en plus les principales données font obstacle à de telle…
Fertility Control in China's Past
Coresidential Patterns in Historical China
The controversy regarding China's historical residential patterns is related to the lack of investigation into demographic influences on past kinship structures and household formation. This study uses computer micro-simulation to examine demographic feasibility of people living in large multi-generation households under the demographic conditions close to those recorded in Chinese history. It investigates both the composition of households in wh…
The demographic transition in Victorian England and changes in English kinship networks
Lorsque l'on étudie le fonctionnement des réseaux de famille et de parenté, la question la plus importante, et pourtant la moins étudiée, est de savoir dans quelle mesure ces systèmes de soutien sont affectés par les conditions démographiques dans le passé. Nous commençons par examiner les changements rapides démographiques intervenus, surtout en matière de mortalité et de fécondité, dans l'Angleterre de l'époque victorienne et rappellons à quel …
Major Socioeconomic Driving Forces of Improving Population Health in China
China's post-Cultural-Revolution reform generated rapid economic growth. But it also brought about major negative changes, especially in the early stage, which jeopardized population health and mortality gains. Nonetheless, improvements continued. China had achieved the Millennium Development Goal target 4 of reducing under-5 mortality by two-thirds well before the target year of 2015. Life expectancy continued to rise and reached 76.6 years by 2…
Could changes in reported sex ratios at birth during China's 1958-1961 famine support the adaptive sex ratio adjustment hypothesis
The adaptive sex ratio adjustment hypothesis suggests that when mothers are in poor conditions the sex ratio of their offspring will be biased towards females. Major famines provide opportunities for testing this hypothesis because they lead to the widespr
A decomposition of immigrant divorce rates in Australia
Demographic Conditions and Multi-generation Households in Chinese History. Results from Genealogical Research and Microsimulation
The large multi-generation household has been a popular subject in the study of Chinese social history. This study compares outcomes of computer micro-simulation with results from genealogical research, and is particularly concentrated on the potential pattern of multi-generation co-residence in the past. On the basis of such a comparison, questions concerning the impact of demographic conditions on the formation and composition of large multi-ge…
Population and the Environment in China
The demographic transition in Victorian England and changes in English kinship networks
Lorsque l'on étudie le fonctionnement des réseaux de famille et de parenté, la question la plus importante, et pourtant la moins étudiée, est de savoir dans quelle mesure ces systèmes de soutien sont affectés par les conditions démographiques dans le passé. Nous commençons par examiner les changements rapides démographiques intervenus, surtout en matière de mortalité et de fécondité, dans l'Angleterre de l'époque victorienne et rappellons à quel …
Deliberate Birth Control Under a High-Fertility Regime
Over the past 30 years some of the most rapid fertility declines have occurred in populations of Chinese origin even in Chinas rural population. While socioeconomic development may have provoked and supported fertility decline in Singapore Hong Kong Taiwan and some of mainland Chinas major cities it cannot explain comparable declines in Chinese populations in Malaysia Indonesia and the Philippines where levels of socioeconomic development are gen…
Long-term Mortality Patterns in Chinese History
Human populations have lived on the earth for millions of years, yet the study of population history only began to be established in the mid-twentieth century. In spite of the considerable progress in the study of historical demography which has since been made, there have been hardly any detailed studies of fertility and mortality before the sixteenth century. This study, by analysing a set of Chinese genealogies, examines long-term mortality pa…
The Demographic Transition in Victorian England and Changes in English Kinship Networks
Coresidential Patterns in Historical China
The controversy regarding China's historical residential patterns is related to the lack of investigation into demographic influences on past kinship structures and household formation. This study uses computer micro-simulation to examine demographic feasibility of people living in large multi-generation households under the demographic conditions close to those recorded in Chinese history. It investigates both the composition of households in wh…
A decomposition of immigrant divorce rates in Australia
Registered Households and Micro-Social Structure in China
A large amount of research on Chinese households has been undertaken since 1980. However, problems existing in Chinese household registration and their impact on collecting household data have not been fully appreciated. Furthermore, most published studies have concentrated on the composition of households, while kinship relations beyond households have not been adequately investigated. This article starts with a description of China’s household …
Chinese genealogies as a source for demographic research
Genealogy is the written record of family or lineage members descended from a common ancestor or ancestors. These materials have long been used by demographers in their investigation of past demographic behaviour. Most available genealogies, however, are
Fertility Control in China's Past
On the Far Eastern pattern of mortality
Since the early 1980s, it has been accepted widely that there is a Far Eastern pattern of mortality, a pattern characterized by excessively high death rates among older men relative to death rates among younger men and among women. It has been regarded as a unique regional mortality pattern, applying primarily to Far Eastern populations. A re-examination of the mortality data of some Far Eastern populations reveals that changes in both age patter…
The Far Eastern pattern of mortality is not a unique regional mortality model
In a paper published in this journal last year I questioned the validity of the so-called Far Eastern pattern of mortality as a unique regional mortality model. In her response Noreen Goldman makes three major points. First the Far Eastern mortality pattern as originally formulated by her differs from that defined by the United Nations Population Division. Second the method used in my analysis is different from that of hers and not effective in d…
Mortality Transition in East Asia
East Asia has experienced a rapid mortality decline in recent history. Its life expectancy at birth has increased by about 30 years in the last half century. This paper analyses data collected from Hong Kong, Japan, Korea, Mainland China, and Taiwan. It provides a systematic examination of long-term mortality trends, their age patterns and sex differentials. While mortality transitions in these populations took place in different times and under …
French and German Abstracts
Grâce aux progrès des études de démographie historique, il a été peu à peu reconnu que le taux de fécondité des familles de la Chine historique est resté fort modéré par rapport aux taux élevés connus en d'autres lieux. Mais ce qui est encore objet de débat, c'est de savoir si les Chinois avaient ou non pratiqué intentionnellement un contrôle de la taille de leurs familles. Dans cet article, l'auteur évoque d'abord, succinctement, l’état actuel d…
Towards a better understanding of past fertility regimes
Thanks to the progress that has been made in the study of population history, it has been gradually accepted that fertility in historical China was only moderate in comparison with the recorded high fertility. However, scholars still disagree on whether the Chinese could have intentionally controlled their family size. This article first summarizes recent findings about fertility patterns in historical China. Then the author provides further evid…
Income Inequality, Unequal Health Care Access, and Mortality in China
China made great progress in reducing mortality between 1950 and 1980 when its life expectancy at birth increased from approximately 35 to more than 65 years. Although China has achieved further reductions in mortality under rapid economic growth since that period, the profound socioeconomic transformation has brought about some negative changes in health care services, such as the collapse of the Cooperative Medical System in rural areas, that h…
Reexamining China's Fertility Puzzle
China's fertility level has become a matter of considerable debate since the early 1990s. Despite the widespread concern over data quality, a review of the literature reveals little systematic examination of how fertility data are collected, what specific problems they pose, and how they have been used in demographic research. This article examines five major fertility data sources and identifies problems in producing and using fertility data and…
Fertility, Family Planning and Population Policy in China . Dudley L. Poston Jr. , Che-Fu Lee , Chiung-Fang Chang , Sherry L. McKibben , Carol S. Walther
Les tables types de mortalité des Nations unies de 1982
La Division de la Population des Nations unies a publié en 1982 une série de tables types de mortalité pour les pays en développement. Elles ont été vite adoptées et largement utilisées, dans l’enseignement comme dans la recherche en démographie. Pourtant, un certain nombre de questions relatives à leur interprétation et à leur utilisation n’ont toujours pas reçu de réponse satisfaisante. Cet article examine les évolutions de la mortalité dans le…
Changes in household formation and composition in China since the mid-twentieth century
China's Recent Fertility Decline
Les chercheurs étudiant la fécondité chinoise se trouvent dans une situation étrange depuis le début des années 1990. Alors que les nombreux recensements, enquêtes de fécondité et enquêtes démographiques annuelles fournissent suffisamment de données pour permettre des travaux approfondis sur la baisse récente de la fécondité, le sous-enregistrement et les incohérences dont souffrent de plus en plus les principales données font obstacle à de telle…
China’s far below replacement fertility and its long-term impact
The Chinese government conducted its sixth national census in 2010 and released its major results in April 2011. According to the National Bureau of Statistics the quality of the census was very high. Although the currently released census results cons
Susan Greenhalgh
La baisse récente de la fécondité en Chine à partir d'une nouvelle reconstitution statistique
Les chercheurs étudiant la fécondité chinoise se trouvent dans une situation étrange depuis le début des années 1990. Alors que les nombreux recensements, enquêtes de fécondité et enquêtes démographiques annuelles fournissent suffisamment de données pour permettre des travaux approfondis sur la baisse récente de la fécondité, le sous-enregistrement et les incohérences dont souffrent de plus en plus les principales données font obstacle à de telle…
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