《中国人口史》 / Zhongguo Renkoushi

Overview

《中国人口史》 / Zhongguo Renkoushi enters the wiki through Hanji 388-3 as the population-history work edited by 葛剑雄 that the host uses to interpret ancient Chinese population numbers. Its role in the episode is methodological: raw official household and population figures are not treated as direct death counts.

Current Profile

The book is cited for a correction logic around the Three Kingdoms population trough. Hanji 388-3 says official records can understate actual population because of hidden households, powerful-family concealment,屯田 producers outside county registration, and uncounted minority populations. On that basis, the source gives a corrected trough around 23 million rather than the official 7.67 million.

Key Characteristics

• Population-history reference used to correct literal readings of official demographic records.
• Linked in this source to the difference between state registration and actual population.
• Provides the episode’s main support for treating massive dynastic population drops as real but not mechanically identical to recorded death totals.

Evidence

Corrective demographic method:

• Hanji 388-3 cites 《中国人口史》 while explaining hidden households,屯田 registration exclusions, and uncounted groups.

Three Kingdoms estimate:

• Hanji 388-3 says the Three Kingdoms-period low should be read as roughly 23 million after correction, not simply the 7.67 million registry figure.

Qualifications

The wiki has not independently read the book. This page records the podcast’s citation and the specific demographic-correction use made in Hanji 388-3.

What Changed

• Created the book page as the cited basis for Hanji 388-3’s population-registration caution.

Relationships

• 葛剑雄 - editor named by the source.
• 户口数字解读谨慎 - method drawn from the book’s cited use.
• 东汉末年人口崩塌 - adjacent late-Han demographic-collapse topic qualified by the book’s correction logic.