Quantitative History of China
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Quantitative History of China

State Capacity, Institutions and Development

Herausgegeben: Chen, Zhiwu; Campbell, Cameron; Ma, Debin
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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 scie...