Chinese Household Registration Data of Wudu County (Gansu Province), 1947 (Volume 1): Text and Data

This book offers a unique dataset of the 1947 household register of the Wudu County (Gansu Province) in China. It also includes preliminary analyses of occupation, education, marriage, and the distribution of wealth in the villages of Wudu.
These analyses, based on the available population register data, are not only of importance as they have never been published before, but also because they reveal various socio-economic features of villagers’ lives on the individual level. They thus enable readers of this book to ask innovative questions and address them, contributing to the literature on the historical development of Chinese demography.

This is Part 1 of a 3-volume set.

Minghui Li, PhD. (2020), University of Groningen, is a lecturer at the Institute of Modern Chinese History, Central China Normal University. She has published articles on midwifery, demography, and health in modern China.

Meimei Wang, Ph.D. (2019), Utrecht University, is a research fellow of Chinese modern economic history at Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. She has published many articles on education in China and the modernization of China.

Bas van Leeuwen is a senior researcher at the International Institute of Social History. He specializes in Chinese, Russian, and European economic history. Recent publications include, a.o., Chinese National Income, ca. 1661-1933 (2017); Woman Among Women: Female Agency in Traditional Chinese Households, circa 1947 (2022); and Italy’s Total Factor Productivity in a Global Economy (2023).

Jieli Li is a research assistant at the International Institute of Social History. She specializes in economic history of modern China. Recent publications include the The Household Ranking of Women in Late Republican China (2022) and Migration from Korea to Yanbian Prefecture (2022).