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200 12$aA passion for facts$b[electronic resource] $esocial surveys and the construction of the Chinese nation state, 1900-1949 /$fTong Lam
210   $aBerkeley $cUniversity of California Press$dc2011
215   $a1 online resource (278 p.)
225 1 $aAsia Pacific modern ;$v9
300   $aDescription based upon print version of record.
311   $a0-520-26786-9 
320   $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
327   $aThe rise of the fact and the re-imagining of China -- From divide and count to combine and count -- Foolish people versus soulstealers -- The nationalization of facts and the affective state -- Time, space, and state effect -- China as a social laboratory.
330   $aIn 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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607   $aChina$xSocial policy
610   $a20th century china.
610   $aasia pacific modern.
610   $aasian culture.
610   $aasian history.
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610   $achinese dynasty.
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610   $aconfucian school.
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610   $aevolution of china.
610   $aglobal colonialism.
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