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Chine Population Growth
Increas in population have usually been accompanied (indeed facilitated)
by an increa in trade. In the Western experience, commerce provided the
conditions that allowed industrialization to get started, which in turn led to
growth in science, technology, industry, transport, communications, social
change, and the like that we group under the broad term of “development.”
However, the massive increa in population that in Europe was at first
attributed to industrialization starting in the eighteenth century occurred also
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It is estimated that the Chine population by 1600 was clo to 150
million. The transition between the Ming and Qing dynasties (the venteenth
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century) may have en a decline, but from 1741 to 1851 the annual figures ro
steadily and spectacularly, perhaps beginning with 143 million and ending with
搞好人际关系6个技巧 432 million. If we accept the totals, we are confronted with a situation in
which the Chine population doubled in the 50 years from 1790 to 1840. If, with
greater caution, we assume lower totals in the early eighteenth century and only
400 million in 1850, we still face a startling fact: something like a doubling
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trade, and industrialization could have had much effect.
To explain this sudden increa we cannot point to factors constant in
Chine society but must find conditions or a combination of factors that were
newly effective in this period. Among the is the almost complete internal