Fate and Fortune in Rural China is a major contribution to the study of both the social and population history of late traditional China and that of historical demography in general Lee and Campbell demonstrate the interaction between demographic and other social pressures and illustrate graphically the nature of social mobility and social organization in rural China during the century from SH Their conclusionthat social norms rooted in ideology determined demographic performanceis supported by a mass of hitherto inaccessible primary data