A passion for facts [[electronic resource] ] : social surveys and the construction of the Chinese nation state, 1900-1949 / / Tong Lam
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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 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Asia Pacific modern ; ; 9.