Name: A Passion for Facts: Social Surveys and the Construction of the Chinese Nation-State, 1900–1949 (Asia Pacific Modern) (en Inglés)
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Author: Tong Lam
ISBN: 9780520267862

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A Passion for Facts: Social Surveys and the Construction of the Chinese Nation-State, 1900–1949 (Asia Pacific Modern) (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

Univ Of California Pr

Autor

Tong Lam

Año

2011

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

263

Encuadernación

Tapa Dura

ISBN

520267869

ISBN13

9780520267862

N° edición

Categorías

China
Historia de asia

A Passion for Facts: Social Surveys and the Construction of the Chinese Nation-State, 1900–1949 (Asia Pacific Modern) (en Inglés)

Tong Lam (Autor) · Univ Of California Pr · Tapa Dura

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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.