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Autore: |
Lam Tong <1967->
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Titolo: |
A passion for facts [[electronic resource] ] : social surveys and the construction of the Chinese nation state, 1900-1949 / / Tong Lam
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Pubblicazione: | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2011 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (278 p.) |
Disciplina: | 300.72/051 |
Soggetto topico: | Social surveys - China - History - 20th century |
Soggetto geografico: | China Social conditions 1912-1949 |
China Social policy | |
Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | The 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. |
Sommario/riassunto: | 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. |
Titolo autorizzato: | A passion for facts ![]() |
ISBN: | 1-283-29187-8 |
9786613291875 | |
0-520-95035-6 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910461827303321 |
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