Green revolution and other technological explosive progress create temporary population peaks everywhere, but especially in societies traditionally marked with strong hierarchical structures, agricultural core of sustenance, and strong K-selective mentality of reproduction. You could see clear demographic cycles and waves through all written history of Southern & Eastern Asia. Cometh the fundamental innovation, cometh the shift of walls of the ecological niche. Not for nothing Hong Liangji independently discussed in 治平篇 the same problems as Malthus.