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Record of the Population in Each County of Jiangsu Province in the Newly Compiled Local Chronicles |
Qiu Haiyan |
School of History, Culture and Tourism, Huaiyin Normal University, Huaian 223300, China |
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Abstract The local chronicles compiled since 1980s in Jiangsu Province faithfully record the changes in population between 1958 and 1961.It is clear that there was a widespread famine and abnormal deaths, which varied with prefecture, city and county. The population information given in these chronicles are reliable and can be verified by Demographic History of Jiangsu Province and other history archives.
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