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Quantitative History of China by Zhiwu Chen, Cameron Dougall Campbell, Debin Ma is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Quantitative History of China about?
This Open Access book marks the beginning of a new era in the study of Chinese history. Since the beginning of the computer age, quantitative techniques have been increasingly used to study specific topics like family, population, and living standards in China's past. However, sample sizes have usually been small due to either historical archives' availability constraints or limited human processing capacity. With much increased computing power and machine-assisted reading/processing capacity, many big historical databases have become available, offering quantitative historians and social scientists great opportunities to study China's past development experience. This volume showcases a collection of new findings concerning China's political, social, and economic history and typically based on newly constructed large historical datasets. Most of the work has involved an interdisciplinary team of economists, sociologists, political scientists, historians and econometricians, demonstrating how new big data and quantitative methods may be brought to bear on some of the biggest questions related to China's development over the past three millennia and on the implications of distant pa
Who reads Quantitative History of China?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Zhiwu Chen, Cameron Dougall Campbell, Debin Ma
- Publisher
- Springer
- Published
- 2025
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9789819682720
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Economics, Business