著者

山田 利明

出版者

東洋大学国際哲学研究センター(「エコ・フィロソフィ」学際研究イニシアティブ)事務局

雑誌

「エコ・フィロソフィ」研究 = Eco-Philosophy (ISSN:18846904)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.12, pp.15-23, 2018-03

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Zhao Wenlin and Xie Shujun coauthored History of Chinese Population (People's Publishing House, 1988) was the first book scientifically calculating changes in population seen in Chinese history. Reforms and open-door policies following the Great Cultural Revolution first enabled this book to be published, which gives an exhaustive good picture of the bright and dark sides of Chinese history from the standpoint of changes in population. Contrasting this book with Taketoshi Sato’s Chronology of Chinese Disaster History (Kokushokankokai Inc., 1993) reveals that a principal cause of population decline was starvation.In this article, I reveal from descriptions of history books the circumstances at the time population halved and discuss the true state thereof.