ÿþ<html> <head> <title> WHKMLA : Timelines : Demographic History of China </title> <META name="keywords" keyword="Population History of China"> <!-- copyright Alexander Ganse, 2004-2006 --> </head> <body bgcolor="grey" text="black" link="blue" vlink="red" alink="brown"> <style> <!-- A{ font-weight: bold; font-size: 10pt; font-face: arial; } --> </style> <DIV align ="center"> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD align = "center" valign = "center"> <A HREF = "../../index.html"> <img src = "../../whkmla2.jpg" border = "0"></a></TD></TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width = "200" height = "36" align = "center" valign = "center"> <font size = "2" face = "arial"><B> </b></font></TD> <TD width = "36" height = "36" align = "center" valign = "center"> <img src = "../../region/arrowleft.gif" width = "36" height = "36" border = "0"> </a></TD> <TD align = "center" valign = "center"> <A HREF = "xchina.html"> <img src = "../banners/banchina.jpg" border = "0"> </TD> <TD width = "36" height = "36" align = "center" valign = "center"> <img src = "../../region/arrowright.gif" width = "36" height = "36" border = "0"> </a></TD> <TD width = "200" height = "36" align = "center" valign = "center"> <font size = "2" face = "arial"><B> </b></font></TD></TR></TABLE> <font size = "3" face = "arial"><B><i>First posted on December 14th 2004, last revised on June 4th 2006 </i></b></font><BR><BR><BR><BR> <script language="JavaScript"> <!-- function SymError() { return true; } window.onerror = SymError; //--> </script> <script type="text/javascript"><!-- google_ad_client = "pub-0213752126925919"; google_alternate_color = "FFFFE1"; google_ad_width = 728; google_ad_height = 90; google_ad_format = "728x90_as"; google_ad_channel ="4814426207"; google_ad_type = "text"; google_color_border = "FF3300"; google_color_bg = "FFFFE1"; google_color_link = "0000CC"; google_color_url = "008000"; google_color_text = "6F6F6F"; //--></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script> <BR><BR><BR> </div> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD align = "center" valign = "center" width = "900"> <font face = "Times Roman" size = "5"><B> Timeline : Demographic History of China </B></font> </TD></TR></TABLE> <BR><BR> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD align = "left" valign = "center" width = "110"> <font face = "Times Roman" size = "2"> <BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR> 1368 <BR> 1550 <BR> 18th Century <BR><BR><BR> 1700 <BR> 1750 <BR> 1795 <BR> 1842 <BR> 1851-1864 <BR><BR> 1860es <BR><BR><BR> 1861 <BR> 1900 <BR> 1911 <BR> 1912 <BR> 1937-1945 <BR><BR> 1949-1973 <BR><BR> 1949- <BR><BR><BR><BR> 1960 <BR> 1961 <BR> 1973 <BR> 1979 <BR> 1981 <BR> 2000 <BR> </font></TD> <TD align = "left" valign = "center" width = "600"> <font face = "Times Roman" size = "2"> Estimations for estimated population figures vary considerably. They are mainly <BR> based on censusses in which households were counted (until 1911). <BR> The geographic area for which population figure estimates apply depends on the <BR> historic situation; the difference in areas for which population figures are given <BR> have to be taken into consideration. <BR><BR> End of Yuan Dynasty; China's population estimated at 60,000,000 <BR> China's population estimated at 120,000,000 <BR> Agricultural Revolution in China : triple cropping of rice; introduction of new <BR> crops (maize, potato, sweet potato) lay foundation to sustained population <BR> growth <BR> China's population estimated at 100,000,000 <BR> China's population estimated at 180,000,000 <BR> China's population estimated at 300,000,000 <BR> End of the First Opium War; Chinese emigration increased <BR> Taiping Rebellion; China's population contracted from est. 408,359,000 in 1851 <BR> to 369,282,000 in 1864 <BR> The opening of ports to international trade and the attempts by the Zongli Yamen <BR> to establish a Chinese industry kickstart a trend toward urbanization, especially <BR> at cities such as <A HREF = "tlshanghai.html">Shanghai</A> and Tientsin <BR> <A HREF = "tlmanchuria.html">Manchuria</A> opened to immigration of Han Chinese <BR> China's population 400,000,000 (census counted households) <BR> Chinese Revolution; population given at 427,662,000 <BR> First population census was held <BR> Despite World War II, population of China increased from 511,078,000 in 1937 <BR> to 537,534,000 in 1945 <BR> PRC promoted large families as population was regarded an asset, especially <BR> in the years before China became a nuclear power (1964) <BR> PRC encouraged settlement of Han Chinese in <A HREF = "tlinmong.html">Inner Mongolia</A>, <A HREF = "tlxinjiang.html">Xinjiang</A>, <A HREF = "tlyunnan.html">Yunnan</A> etc., <BR> since 1950 in <A HREF = "tltibet.html">Tibet</A>. In most cases, Han Chinese dominate administration and <BR> economy in the autonomous regions; in many of these regions, Han Chinese <BR> now outnumber the respective ethnic minority. <BR> Population of the PRC 682,024,000 <BR> Population of the PRC contracted to 658,590,000; contraction credited to starvation <BR> The PRC adopted a policy of discouraging large families <BR> The PRC introduced the One Child Policy <BR> Population of the PRC surpassed 1 billion <BR> Population of the PRC 1,265,830,000 <BR> </font></TD> </TR></TABLE><BR><BR><BR><BR> <TABLE border = "3" cellspace="5" cellpadding="5" align="center"> <TR> <TD width = "100" valign = "top" align = "center" bgcolor="#FFFACD"> <font size = "3" face = "Times Roman" color = "#000000"> EXTERNAL <BR> FILES </font></TD> <TD width = "750" valign = "top" align = "left" bgcolor = "#FFFACD"> <font size = "2" face = "Times Roman" color = "#000000"> A Historical Perspective on China's Population Control Policy, from <A HREF = "http://shanghaiexpat.com/Article168.phtml"><B> Shanghai Expat</B></A> <BR> China, from <A HREF = "http://www.library.uu.nl/wesp/populstat/Asia/chinag.htm"><B>Population Statistics</B></A> <BR> Article History of China, from <A HREF = "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_China"><B>Wikipedia</B></A> <BR> Luo Huanzhen, <A HREF = "http://www.ier.hit-u.ac.jp/COE/Japanese/Newsletter/No.9.english/luo.htm"><B>Prewar Population Statistics</B></A> <BR> A Brief History of Chinese Immigration to America, from <A HREF = "http://www.ailf.org/awards/ahp_0001_essay01.htm"><B> American Heritage Project</B></A> <BR> China's One Child Policy, posted by <A HREF = "http://axe.acadiau.ca/~043638z/one-child/"><B>Jesse Zink</B></A> <BR> Article One Child Policy, from <A HREF = "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_child_policy"><B>Wikipedia</B></A> <BR> </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "3" cellspace="5" cellpadding="5" align="center"> <TR> <TD width = "100" valign = "top" align = "center" bgcolor="#FFFACD"> <font size = "3" face = "Times Roman" color = "#000000"> REFERENCE </font></TD> <TD width = "750" valign = "top" align = "left" bgcolor = "#FFFACD"> <font size = "2" face = "Times Roman" color = "#000000"> Ong Jin Hui, Chinese indentured labour : coolies and colonies, pp.51-56; Evelyn Hu-DeHart, The Chinese of Peru, Cuba and Mexico, pp.220-222; Lian Kwen Fe, Migration and the formation of Malaysia and Singapore. pp.392-396; in : Robin Cohen (ed.), The Cambridge Survey of World Migration, Cambridge : UP 1995, KMLA Lib.Sign. <B>304.809 C678c</B> <BR> </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <BR><BR><BR><BR> </DIV> </DIV> <DIV align="center"> <A href="mailto:aganse@hotmail.com"> <IMG src="../../email.gif" border="0"></a><BR> <BR><BR><BR><BR><BR> <font size = "2" face = "Times Roman"> Click here to go <A HREF = "../../index.html">Home</A> <BR> Click here to go to <A HREF = "../../about.html">Information about KMLA, WHKMLA, the author and webmaster</A> <BR> Click here to go to <A HREF = "../..links.html">Statistics</A><BR> </font> <BR><BR><BR> <!-- Start of CH Counter --> <script type="text/javascript"> //<!-- // chCounter v2.0.0 // settings: cstatus = "active"; visible = "1"; path_to_counterfile = "http://www.zum.de/whkmla/counter/counter.php"; urlhp = "http://www.zum.de"; //////////////// url = unescape(location.href); file = url.substring(url.lastIndexOf(urlhp) + urlhp.length, url.length); file = (file.charAt(0) != "/") ? 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