A passion for facts [[electronic resource] ] : social surveys and the construction of the Chinese nation state, 1900-1949 / / Tong Lam

• Autore: Lam Tong <1967->
• 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
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Asia Pacific modern ; ; 9.