Connecting migration and world history: Demographic patterns, family systems and gender

International Review of Social History

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 97-104

  Moch, Leslie Page ^a  

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EID: 33947248739     PISSN: 00208590     EISSN: 1469512X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S002085900600280X     Document Type: Review

References (51)

1. For Europeanist perspectives, see Klaus Bade, Migration in European History (Cambridge, 2003);
2. and Leslie Page Moch, Moving Europeans: Migration in Western Europe since 1650 (Bloomington, IN, 2003).
3. For recent global migration histories, see Dirk Hoerder, Cultures in Contact: World Migrations in the Second Millennium (Durham, NC, 2002)
4. and Patrick Manning, Migration in World History (London, 2004).
5. James Z. Lee, "Migration and Expansion in Chinese History", in William McNeill and Ruth Adams (eds), Human Migration: Patterns and Policies (Bloomington, IN, 1978), p. 26.
6. Kenneth Pomeranz, The Great Divergence: Europe, China, and the Making of the Modern World Economy (Princeton, NJ, 2000), p. 84.
7. Ibid.
8. Ibid., pp. 82-83.
9. Donna R. Gabaccia, "The 'Yellow Peril' and the 'Chinese of Europe': Global Perspectives and Race and Labor, 1815-1930", in J. Lucassen and L. Lucassen (eds), Migration, Migration History, History: Old Paradigms and New Perspectives (Berne, 1997), pp. 177-196, 182.
10. Adam McKeown, "Global Migration, 1846-1940", Journal of World History, 15 (2004), pp. 155-189, 181-182.
11. Göran Therborn, Between Sex and Power: Family in the World, 1900-2000 (London, 2004), p. 62.
12. Ibid., p. 63.
13. Therborn also writes about foot-binding as an important indicator of patriarchy (ibid., p. 14).
14. This is a fascinating but tangential topic here: see Patricia B. Ebrey, Women and the Family in Chinese History (London, 2003).
15. Ann B. Waltner and Mary Jo Maynes, "Childhood, Youth and the Female Life Cycle: Women's Life-Cycle Transitions in a World-Historical Perspective: Comparing Marriage in China and Europe", Journal of Women's History, 12 (2001), pp. 11-20.
16. James Z. Lee and Wang Feng, One Quarter of Humanity: Malthusian Mythology and Chinese Realities, 1700-2000 (Cambridge, 1999), p. 10.
17. Ibid., p. 115.
18. Ibid., p. 7.
19. Ping-ti Ho, Studies on the Population of China, 1368-1953 (Cambridge, 1959; 3rd edn, 1974), pp. 58-59.
20. Hsiao-Tung Fei, Peasant Life in China: A Field Study of Country Life in the Yangtze Valley (London, 1939), pp. 22, 135.
21. Lee and Feng, One Quarter of Humanity, pp. 7-8.
22. The third distinctive aspect of Chinese demographics is low marital fertility; the fourth, a common resort to fictive kin by adoption, necessitated by low fertility and low survival rates; adoption was widespread despite a "preoccupation with lineage perpetuation" (ibid., p. 8).
23. Ibid., p. 7
24. and Therborn, Between Sex and Power, p. 139.
25. Frans van Poppel, Michel Oris, and James Lee (eds), The Road to Independence: Leaving Home in Western and Eastern Societies, 16th-19th Centuries (Berne, 2004).
26. Adam McKeown, Chinese Networks and Cultural Change: Peru, Chicago, Hawaii, 1900-1936 (Chicago, IL, 2001), pp. 44, 53;
27. and Lewis H. Siegelbaum, "Another 'Yellow Peril': Chinese Migrants in the Russian Far East and the Russian Reaction before 1917", Modern Asian Studies, 12 (1978), pp. 307-330, 312, 314, 316.
28. McKeown, Chinese Networks, p. 58.
29. Siegelbaum, "Another 'Yellow Peril'", p. 314.
30. Ibid., p. 321.
31. McKeown, Chinese Networks, p. 41.
32. Ibid., pp. 72-74.
33. Madeline Hsu, Dreaming of Gold, Dreaming of Home: Transnationalism and Migration between the US and South China, 1882-1943 (Stanford, CA, 2000).
34. Ibid., pp. 81-83.
35. Alan Macfarlane, The Origins of English Individualism: The Family, Property and Social Transition (Oxford, 1978).
36. John Hajnal, "The European Marriage Pattern", in Richard Wall (ed.), Family Forms in Historic Europe (Cambridge, 1983).
37. Lee and Feng, One Quarter of Humanity, p. 5.
38. According to McKeown, anthropologist Fei Hsiao-Tung, cited above for his 1939 case study, had adopted a similar binary view of the Chinese and Westerners by the time of his 1943 book Earthbound China; McKeown, Chinese Networks, pp. 272-274.
39. Donna R. Gabaccia and Franca Iacovetta (eds), Women, Gender and Transnational Lives: Italian Workers of the World (Toronto, 2002).
40. Theo Engelen and Arthur P. Wolf (eds), Marriage and the Family in Eurasia: Perspectives on the Hajnal Hypothesis (Amsterdam, 2006);
41. Ying-chang Chuang, T. Engelen, and A.P. Wolf (eds), Positive or Preventive. Fertility Developments in Taiwan and the Netherlands, 1850-1950 (Amsterdam, 2006).
42. Tommy Bengtsson et al. (eds), Life Under Pressure: Mortality and Living Standards in Europe and Asia, 1700-1900 (Cambridge, 2004). I am grateful to George Alter for this information.
43. Van Poppel, Oris, and Lee, The Road to Independence. Unfortunately, there is not an article on China in this volume.
44. See The Journal of Asian Studies, 61 (2002), pp. 501-663:
45. Philip C.C. Huang, "Development or Involution in Eighteen-Century Britain and China?";
46. Kenneth Pomeranz, "Beyond the East-West Binary: Resituating Development Paths in the Eighteenth-Century World";
47. James Lee, Cameron Campbell, and Wang Feng, "Positive Check or Chinese Checks?";
48. Robert Brenner and Christopher Isett, "England's Divergence from China's Yangzi Delta: Property Relations, Microeconomics, and Patterns of Development."
49. See also James Lee and Cameron Campbell, "Living Standards in Liaoing, 1749-1909: Evidence from Demographic Outcomes", in Robert Allen et al.(eds), Living Standards in the Past: New Perspectives on Well-Being in Europe and Asia (Oxford 2005), pp. 403-426.
50. Antoinette Fauve-Chamoux and Emiko Ochiai (eds), House and the Stem Family in Eurasian Perspective (Paris, 1998),
51. and Antoinette Fauve-Chamoux (ed.), Domestic Service and the Formation of European Identity: Understanding the Globalization of Domestic Work, 16th-21st Centuries (Berne, 2004).