This volume consists of three major sections on fertility, disease and mortality, and marriage and family, which together with five introductory chapters combine depth of analysis with breadth of source material.

• I. Overview


• 1: John C. Caldwell: What do we Know about Asian Population History? Comparisons of Asian and European Research


• 2: Chris Wilson: Understanding the Nature and Importance of Low-growth Demographic Regimes


• 3: Anthony Reid: South-East Asian Population History and the Colonial Impact


• 4: Sumit Guha: The Population History of South Asia from the Seventeenth to the Twentieth Centuries: An Exploration


• 5: Tim Dyson and Monica Das Gupta: Demographic Trends in Ludhiana District, Punjab, 1881-1981: An Exploration of Vital Registration Data in Colonial India


• II. Fertility


• 6: Noriko O. Tsuya: Patterns of Nuptiality and Fertility in a Fishing Village in Southwestern Tokugawa Japan


• 7: Ken'ichi Tomobe: The Level of Fertility in Tokugawa and Meiji Japan c. 1801-1930


• 8: Terence H. Hull: Indonesian Fertility Behaviour before the Transition: Searching for Hints in the Historical Record


• 9: C. M. Langford: Trends and Fluctuations in Fertility in Sri Lanka during the First Half of the Twentieth Century


• III. Disease and Mortality


• 10: Peter Boomgaard: Crisis Mortality in Seventeenth Century Indonesia


• 11: Cameron Campbell: Mortality Change and the Epidemiological Transition in Beijing, 1644-1990


• 12: Ts'ui-jung Liu and Shi-yung Liu: Disease and Mortality in the History of Taiwan


• 13: John R. Shepherd: Smallpox and the Pattern of Mortality in Late Nineteenth Century Taiwan


• 14: Ann Bowman Jannetta: Public Health and the Diffusion of Vaccination in Japan


• 15: Jose Antonio Ortega Osona: The Attenuation of Mortality Fluctuations in British Punjab and Bengal, 1870-1947


• IV. Marriage and Family


• 16: James Lee, Wang Feng, and Ruan Danching: Nuptiality among the Quing Nobility, 1600-1900


• 17: Zhongwei Zhao: Demographic Conditions and Household Formation in Chinese History: A Simulation Study


• 18: Akira Hayami and Emiko Ochiai: Family Patterns and Demographic Factors in Pre-Industrial Japan


• 19: Bruce Caldwell: marriage Patterns and Demographic Change in Sri Lanka: A Long-Term Perspective

Ts'ui-jung Liu is Research Fellow and Director at the Institute of Taiwan History, Preparatory Office, Academia Sinica, Taipei.
James Lee is Professor in the Division of Humanities and Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology.
David Sven Reher is Professor in the School of Political Science and Sociology, Universidad Complutense de Madrid.
Osamu Saito is Professor at the Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo.
Wang Feng is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology, University of California, Irvine.