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Passion for Facts
Social Surveys and the Construction of the Chinese Nation-State, 1900–1949
Inbunden, Engelska, 2011
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In this path-breaking book, Tong Lam examines the emergence of the "culture of fact" in modern China, showing how elites and intellectuals sought to transform the dynastic empire into a nation-state, thereby ensuring its survival. Lam argues that an epistemological break away from traditional modes of understanding the observable world began around the turn of the twentieth century. Tracing the Neo-Confucian school of evidentiary research and the modern departure from it, Lam shows how, through the rise of the social survey, 'the fact' became a basic conceptual medium and source of truth. In focusing on China's social survey movement, "A Passion for Facts" analyzes how information generated by a range of research practices - census, sociological investigation, and ethnography - was mobilized by competing political factions to imagine, manage, and remake the nation.
Produktinformation
- Utgivningsdatum2011-11-01
- Mått152 x 229 x 23 mm
- Vikt499 g
- FormatInbunden
- SpråkEngelska
- SerieAsia Pacific Modern
- Antal sidor280
- FörlagUniversity of California Press
- ISBN9780520267862