A Passion for Facts – Social Surveys and the Construction of the Chinese Nation State, 1900–1949 : Social Surveys and the Construction of the Chinese Nation-State, 1900–1949
by
Tong Lam
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Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
Asia Pacific Modern
ISBN-10
0520267869
ISBN-13
9780520267862
Publisher
University of California Press
Imprint
University of California Press
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Nov 1st, 2011
Print length
280 Pages
Weight
514 grams
Dimensions
23.40 x 16.20 x 2.30 cms
Product Classification:
Social research & statisticsSocial research and statistics
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In focusing on China's social survey movement, this title 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.
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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