Regional Systems and the Modern Transformation of Agrarian Societies: Population and Development in France, Japan, and China

区域体系与农业社会的现代转型：法国、日本和中国的人口与发展

• 批准号: 9122939
• 负责人: G.William Skinner
• 金额: $ 35.07万
• 依托单位: University of California-Davis
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 1992
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1992-04-01 至 1996-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9122939&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Regional; Systems; Modern; Transformation; Agrarian

This project employs a model of spatial differentiation to analyze the modern transformation of three agrarian societies - France, Japan, and China -- during comparable spans of "development time" (1760-1896 for France, 1800-1926 for Japan, and 1842-1990 for China). The research team, an anthropologist, a geographer, a demographer, and an historian, will follow a comparative research design to advance our knowledge of an important interdisciplinary issue: the interaction between population processes and economic development in space and time. Using disaggregated quantitative data and regional systems methodology, the researchers will complete an analysis of each country's regional structure, conceptualized as a hierarchy of central places and of their internally differentiated hinterlands, and proceed to test propositions concerning population and development. Then, in three comparable subregions (centered on Bordeaux, Nagoya, and Ningbo) they will replicate the analysis at lower levels of the hierarchy and pursue longitudinal studies, tracing the diffusion of modern innovations downward through the spatial hierarchy. In selected local systems within each of the targeted subregions, they will use the methods of historical ethnography to extend the analysis to the village level. The project is expected to demonstrate the analytical power of the regional systems model, revealing its utility for a wide range of research in the social sciences.

该项目采用空间差异化模型来分析“发展时间”的可比跨度三个农业社会的现代转型 - 法国，日本和中国（法国1760-1896，日本为1800-1926，以及1842-- 1990年中国）。 研究团队，人类学家，地理学家，人口统计学家和历史学家将遵循比较研究设计，以提高我们对重要的跨学科问题的了解：人口过程与时空之间的互动与经济发展之间的互动。 研究人员将使用分解的定量数据和区域系统方法，将完成对每个国家的区域结构的分析，概念化为中心地点及其内部区分腹地的层次结构，并继续测试有关人口和发展的主张。 然后，在三个可比较的子区域（以波尔多，名古屋和宁波为中心），它们将在层次结构的较低水平上复制分析并进行纵向研究，从而追踪通过空间层次结构向下向下的现代创新的扩散。 在每个目标子区域内选定的本地系统中，他们将使用历史人种志的方法将分析扩展到乡村层面。 预计该项目将证明区域系统模型的分析能力，从而揭示了其在社会科学领域进行广泛研究的实用性。