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SUMMARY:160 years of occupational structure: Late Imperial China and its r
 egions - Cheng Yang (University of Cambridge)
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DESCRIPTION:Despite extensive debates around West-East divergence in econo
 mic developments before and during the Industrial Revolution\, empirical e
 vidence of China remains thin. Using Xingke Tiben (judicial records of Ch
 inese homicide trials)\, a hitherto unused source for occupational data\, 
 a new occupational database has been created that comprises individual-lev
 el occupational data and other key variables\; over 31\,000 individuals in
  8\,000 randomly sampled Xingke Tiben from the Qing Empire's 320 prefectur
 es in 1736-1898 are recorded. This paper discusses the core methodology (a
 ssessment of the inherent biases\; reweighting) and key results of reconst
 ructing the occupational structure of China and its regions from this data
 base. 
LOCATION:Seminar Room 5\, Faculty of History
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