Positive or preventive?: Reproduction in Taiwan and the Netherlands, 1850-1940

Contents......Page 5
1 Introduction: Malthusian realities / Theo Engelen & Arthur P. Wolf......Page 8
2 Quantifying the colonized: The History and Significance of Demographic Sources from Colonial Taiwan / Paul R. Katz & Chiu Cheng-lueh......Page 20
3 Sources for the historical demography of the Netherlands in the 19th and early 20th centuries / Jan Kok......Page 42
4 Two ethnographies of reproduction / Hill Gates & Marloes Schoonheim......Page 54
5 Burden or opportunity? Illegitimate births in the Netherlands and Taiwan / Hill Gates, Jan Kok & Sping Wang......Page 82
6 Fertility four ways: Dutch urban and rural and Taiwanese urban and rural / Theo Engelen & Arthur P. Wolf......Page 108
7 Group identity and fertility: An evaluation of the role of religion and ethnicity in the Netherlands and Taiwan / John Shepherd, Pan Inghai, Jan Kok, Claudia Engel, Theo Engelen & Melissa Brown......Page 122
8 Fertility and infant and early childhood mortality: Some lessons on stopping behavior from Taiwanese and Dutch cases / John R. Shepherd, Jan Kok & HsiehYing-hui......Page 164
9 Marital fertility and birth control in rural Netherlands andTaiwan, 19th and early 20th centuries / Jan Kok, Yang Wen-shan & Hsieh Ying-hui......Page 200
10 Malthus on China: A brief for the received view / Arthur P. Wolf & Theo Engelen......Page 238
Bibliography......Page 264