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James Z. Lee

Research Professor, Population Studies Center;

Director, Chinese Studies;

Faculty Associate, Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research;

Professor, History;

Professor, Sociology

Ph.D., University of Chicago

Dr. Lee's research interests include Chinese history; Chinese society and economy; comparative demography and sociology of populations in the past (West Europe and East Asia); comparative demography and sociology of contemporary populations (China and Zambia); historical sociology; genealogy and genetics. His current work focuses on the historical demography of late imperial and contemporary China.

Recent Publications

Books

Bengtsson, Tommy, Cameron D. Campbell, and James Z. Lee. Life under Pressure : Mortality and Living Standards in Europe and Asia, 1700-1900. Boston, Mass : MIT Press. 2004.

van Poppel, F. W. A., Michel Oris, and James Z. Lee. The Road to Independence : Leaving Home in Western and Eastern Societies, 16th-20th Centuries. New York : Peter Lang. 2004.

Ding, Yizhuang, Shenyang Guo, James Z. Lee, and Cameron D. Campbell. Liaodong yimin de qiren shehui (Banner Society and the Settlement of Eastern Liaodong). Shanghai: Shanghai shehui kexue chubanshe. 2003.

Liu, Ts'ui-jung, James Z. Lee, David S. Reher, Osamu Saito, and Feng Wang. Asian Population History. Oxford University Press. 2001.

Lee, James Z. The Political Economy of a Frontier: Southwest China, 1250-1850. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press. 2000.

Journal Articles

Campbell, Cameron D., and James Z. Lee. "Kin networks, marriage, and social mobility in late imperial China." Social Science History, 32 (2): 175-214. 2008.

Chapters

Lee, James Z., and Cameron D. Campbell. "Living standards in Liaoning: Evidence from demographic outcomes." In Living Standards in the Past : New Perspectives on Well-Being in Asia and Europe edited by Robert Allen, Tommy Bengtsson and Martin Dribe. Pp. 403-426. New York: Oxford University Press. 2005.

Lee, James Z. "History of the family and historical demography." In Looking Backward and Looking Forward: Perspectives on Social Science History edited by Harvey Graff and Leslie Page Moch. Madison, WI : University of Wisconsin Press. 2004.

Lee, James Z. "The tyranny of home ownership: housing policy and social exclusion in colonial and post-colonial Hong Kong." In Social Policy and the Commonwealth: Prospects for Social Inclusion edited by Catherine Jones Finer and Paul Symth. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 2004.

Lau, Kwok-yu, James Z. Lee, and Zhang Yongyue. "Housing." In Social Policy Reform in Hong Kong and Shanghai: A Tale of Two Cities edited by Linda Wong, Lynn White, and Gui Shixun. Armonk, N.Y.: M. E. Sharpe. 2004.

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