Quantitative History of China

This Open Access book marks the beginning of a new era in the study of Chinese history. Since the beginning of the computer age, quantitative techniques have been increasingly used to study specific topics like family, population, and living standards in China's past. However, sample sizes have usua...

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description This Open Access book marks the beginning of a new era in the study of Chinese history. Since the beginning of the computer age, quantitative techniques have been increasingly used to study specific topics like family, population, and living standards in China's past. However, sample sizes have usually been small due to either historical archives' availability constraints or limited human processing capacity. With much increased computing power and machine-assisted reading/processing capacity, many big historical databases have become available, offering quantitative historians and social scientists great opportunities to study China's past development experience. This volume showcases a collection of new findings concerning China's political, social, and economic history and typically based on newly constructed large historical datasets. Most of the work has involved an interdisciplinary team of economists, sociologists, political scientists, historians and econometricians, demonstrating how new big data and quantitative methods may be brought to bear on some of the biggest questions related to China's development over the past three millennia and on the implications of distant past events on contemporary China. Topics covered range from the roles of war, state formation, religion, culture, finance and institutions in long-run development and technological innovations, to regicide history, to the organization and capacity of the bureaucracy. Contributors include leading figures in the quantitative study of China's long-run socioeconomic and political history. This volume will be of value to anyone with an interest in Chinese economic, political, social and/or institutional history as well as anyone interested in quantitative history more generally.
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spelling doab-20.500.12854ir-1683982025-10-21T05:18:00Z Quantitative History of China Chen, Zhiwu Campbell, Cameron Ma, Debin Open Access Chinese History Quantitative History Ancient Roots State Capacity Warfare in China Finance in China Institutional Economics thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KC Economics::KCZ Economic history thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHF Asian history This Open Access book marks the beginning of a new era in the study of Chinese history. Since the beginning of the computer age, quantitative techniques have been increasingly used to study specific topics like family, population, and living standards in China's past. However, sample sizes have usually been small due to either historical archives' availability constraints or limited human processing capacity. With much increased computing power and machine-assisted reading/processing capacity, many big historical databases have become available, offering quantitative historians and social scientists great opportunities to study China's past development experience. This volume showcases a collection of new findings concerning China's political, social, and economic history and typically based on newly constructed large historical datasets. Most of the work has involved an interdisciplinary team of economists, sociologists, political scientists, historians and econometricians, demonstrating how new big data and quantitative methods may be brought to bear on some of the biggest questions related to China's development over the past three millennia and on the implications of distant past events on contemporary China. Topics covered range from the roles of war, state formation, religion, culture, finance and institutions in long-run development and technological innovations, to regicide history, to the organization and capacity of the bureaucracy. Contributors include leading figures in the quantitative study of China's long-run socioeconomic and political history. This volume will be of value to anyone with an interest in Chinese economic, political, social and/or institutional history as well as anyone interested in quantitative history more generally. 2025-10-21T05:17:59Z 2025-10-21T05:17:59Z 2025-10-20T11:16:17Z 2026 book ONIX_20251020T130859_9789819682720_63 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/107697 9789819682720 9789819682713 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/168398 eng Studies in Economic History; Economics and Finance; Economics and Finance (R0) open access image/jpeg n/a https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/107697/1/9789819682720.pdf Springer Nature Springer 10.1007/978-981-96-8272-0 10.1007/978-981-96-8272-0 9fa3421d-f917-4153-b9ab-fc337c396b5a 9789819682720 9789819682713 Springer 351 Singapore open access
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Warfare in China
Finance in China
Institutional Economics
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Quantitative History of China
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Chinese History
Quantitative History
Ancient Roots
State Capacity
Warfare in China
Finance in China
Institutional Economics
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Warfare in China
Finance in China
Institutional Economics
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