TY - BOOK ID - 77935458 TI - Two cities, one life : marriage and fertility in Lugang and Nijmegen AU - Engelen, Th. AU - Xie, Yinghui. AU - Koetsenruijter, W. PY - 2007 SN - 1283259451 9786613259455 9048521017 9789048521012 9789052602141 905260214X 9781283259453 6613259454 PB - Amsterdam : Aksant, DB - UniCat KW - Marriage KW - Childbirth KW - Birth KW - Birthing KW - Child birth KW - Live birth KW - Obstetrics KW - Parturition KW - Labor (Obstetrics) KW - Lugang Zhen (Taiwan) KW - Nijmegen (Netherlands) KW - Population. KW - Nimwegen (Netherlands) KW - Nimeguen (Netherlands) KW - Nimègue (Netherlands) KW - Nymwegen (Netherlands) KW - Nimega (Netherlands) KW - Nijmegen, Netherlands KW - Noviomagus (Netherlands) KW - Noviomagus Batavorum (Netherlands) KW - Neomagus (Netherlands) KW - Lu-kang chen, Taiwan KW - Lu-kang chen (Taiwan) KW - Lu-chiang (Taiwan) KW - Lu-kang (Taiwan) KW - Lugang Jhen (Taiwan) KW - Lukang (Taiwan) KW - Rokko (Taiwan) KW - 鹿港鎮 (Taiwan) KW - Demografie. KW - Lugang. KW - Nijmegen. KW - Cross-cultural studies. KW - HISTORY / General. KW - Comparison of cultures KW - Inter-cultural studies KW - Intercultural studies KW - Trans-cultural studies KW - Transcultural studies KW - Culture KW - Ethnology KW - Social sciences KW - Methodology UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77935458 AB - Historical processes are the result of the behavior of countless individual actors. In this book, therefore, the authors compare the demography of the Taiwanese town Lugang and the Dutch town Nijmegen using data on the lifes of thousands of their inhabitants. The period covered is approximately 1850 to 1945. First, the standard demographic rates on nuptiality, fertility and mortality are calculated to test the Malthusian predictions on a so called 'positive' and a 'preventive' demographic regime. Next, the authors try to disentangle the individual rationality behind aggregated measures in order to find out how the inhabitants of the two towns used the one life they had. Unaware of each others existence, the people living in Nijmegen and Lu-kang had more in common than one would expect given the huge cultural differences. ER -