Download or read book Fate and Fortune in Rural China written by James Z. Lee and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-08-16 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fate and Fortune in Rural China is a major contribution to the study of both the social and population history of late traditional China, and that of historical demography in general. Lee and Campbell demonstrate the interaction between demographic and other social pressures, and illustrate graphically the nature of social mobility and social organization in rural China during the century from 1774SH1873. Their conclusion--that social norms, rooted in ideology, determined demographic performance--is supported by a mass of hitherto inaccessible primary data.