葛剑雄 / Ge Jianxiong

Overview

葛剑雄 / Ge Jianxiong enters the wiki through Hanji 388-3 as the historian named for population-history analysis of ancient Chinese demographic records. The episode cites his edited 《中国人口史》 as the basis for correcting raw official population figures when discussing war, dynastic transition, and apparent demographic collapse.

Current Profile

In this wiki layer, Ge Jianxiong is not presented through a full biography. His role is evidentiary: Hanji 388-3 uses his population-history framework to distinguish registered households from actual population and actual deaths. The cited correction for the Three Kingdoms period, from 7.67 million official registry population to an estimated trough around 23 million, becomes the source’s key caution against treating historical records as direct mortality ledgers.

Key Characteristics

• Historian cited for ancient Chinese population-history analysis.
• Associated in this source with 《中国人口史》 as an edited scholarly reference.
• Supplies the methodological caution that household and population records require correction for under-registration, concealment, special registration categories, and uncounted populations.

Evidence

Population-history authority:

• Hanji 388-3 names Ge Jianxiong and 《中国人口史》 when explaining why Three Kingdoms population records cannot be read literally.

Methodological caution:

• Hanji 388-3 attributes to this population-history frame the correction for hidden households,屯田 producers, and uncounted minority populations.

Qualifications

This page records Ge Jianxiong only as he appears in the episode. It does not attempt a full account of his academic career, publications, or debates around Chinese historical demography.

What Changed

• Created Ge Jianxiong as the named population-history authority cited by Hanji 388-3.

Relationships

• 《中国人口史》 - edited work cited in the episode’s demographic correction.
• 户口数字解读谨慎 - methodological concept the episode derives from the cited population-history analysis.
• 王朝更替人口损耗 - substantive topic where the cited analysis is applied.