Lineage genealogies as a new source for researching the occupational structure of twentieth-century China: Tradition (partially) transformed

Ying Dai

Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History, 2025, vol. 58, issue 1, 54-79

Abstract: The tradition of compiling jiapu (Chinese lineage genealogies) was revived in the 1980s, and around 2% of the new generation of jiapu began to document male and female occupations comprehensively. These transformed new jiapu allow for quantitative estimation of the occupational structure of twentieth-century China, for which arguably reliable census data are only available from 1982 onwards. This study created, from scratch, the Yangtze Jiapu Dataset comprising 210,383 occupational observations. This paper outlines the methodologies for estimating occupational structure with the jiapu data. The jiapu data shed new light on existing estimates for the late nineteenth century and 1933, as well as the occupational statistics in the 1980s and 1990s.

Date: 2025
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