A Passion for Facts : Social Surveys and the Construction of the Chinese Nation-State, 1900-1949 Hardback
by Tong Lam
Part of the Asia Pacific Modern series
Hardback
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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.
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:280 pages, 7 b-w photographs, 1 line illustration
- Publisher:University of California Press
- Publication Date:01/11/2011
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- ISBN:9780520267862
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:280 pages, 7 b-w photographs, 1 line illustration
- Publisher:University of California Press
- Publication Date:01/11/2011
- Category:
- ISBN:9780520267862
