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Setting 300 years as the time scale and the province as the spatial unit, respectively, using adjusted population data of 286 time phases, this chapter establishes the national population distribution for eight years, i.e., 1724, 1767, 1812, 1855, 1898, 1936 and 1982 as time sections. Generally, population of China in the past 300 years presented an uprising tendency and can be classified into five stages according to the feature of its growth. The distribution of population gradually tended toward equilibrium: the population gravity center changed within a narrow range and generally presented a moving tendency toward south-west, south-east, north-east and north-west.
The main body of this chapter had been published by the Geographical Research, Vol. 32, No. 7 in 2013, pp. 1291–1302 in Chinese with the title ‘Population change and spatiotemporal distribution of China in recent 300 years.’ In this Chapter, we have translated, updated and expanded the material in that already published paper under the permission granted to us by the Journal.
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Jin, X., Zhou, Y., Yang, X., Cheng, Y. (2018). The Spatial-Temporal Pattern of Population Changes in China in the Past 300 Years. In: Historical Farmland in China During 1661-1980. Historical Geography and Geosciences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71879-8_4
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