Wu-chiang

— What is not mentioned in the cases of Ch'ang-shu and Ning-po is clearly explained in the history of Wu-chiang county in southern Kiangsu whose population may be seen in Table 7.[...]While Ch'ang-shu and Wu-chiang represented a minority of the localities in the southeast registering a mildly increasing or stationary population, most of the available late Ming southeastern local histories registered a steady decline.