Quantitative History of China by Zhiwu Chen, Cameron Campbell... - 9789819682713

Quantitative History of ChinaState Capacity, Institutions and Development\nAuthor(s): Zhiwu Chen, Cameron Campbell, Debin Ma\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Springer Nature Switzerland AG, Switzerland\nImprint: Springer Nature Switzerland AG\nISBN-13: 9789819682713, 978-9819682713\nSynopsis\nThis 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.