A Study On The Urban Area Population Of Han Dynasty

City is a good angle to study history. Through Researching into the population of cities on the basis of grasping general characteristics, some historical phenomenon can be explained with a new perspective. The in-depth research on the population problem of Han Dynasty is a very great significance for understanding temporal production relations and mastering the Han Dynasty urban development law.The paper consists of four parts:1. To analyze the development of the Han Dynasty Urban systematically. After more than 100 years'development, Western Han Dynasty had completed the establishment of mature three-class urban system, National Capital, County town and County seat, by the medium term of Western Han. Besides the three kinds of cities, the system included another sort of urban,'ShiYi', which is a town in a county while it is not the county seat.2. To calculate the urban population proportion of Han Dynasty and get the result 1/3. Furthermore, based on the result the dissertation proposes that the urban population proportion of Han Dynasty is a downward trend.3. To analysis the urban population structure of Han Dynasty from the perspective of class and conclude the characteristic of the urban population structure of Han Dynasty.4. To inspect urban population management of Han Dynasty from the perspective of Li, a kind of administrative organization. In the process of this analysis, focus is that registered permanent address management and public security management. At the same time, I have analyzed the evolution of power that Han Dynasty be controlled its urban population by dynamic vision.Founding on the characteristic of Han Dynasty, the thesis devotes to more careful research on urban population of Han Dynasty by integrating the historical literature and archaeological data and using statistics, historical metrology, microscopic analysis, microcosmic analysis methods and so on from the urban population proportion, urban population structures and urban population management etc perspectives.