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portada A Passion for Facts: Social Surveys and the Construction of the Chinese Nation-State, 1900–1949 (Asia Pacific Modern)
Type
Physical Book
Publisher
Author
Year
2011
Language
English
Pages
263
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
520267869
ISBN13
9780520267862
Edition No.
1
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A Passion for Facts: Social Surveys and the Construction of the Chinese Nation-State, 1900–1949 (Asia Pacific Modern)

Tong Lam (Author) · Univ Of California Pr · Hardcover

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

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

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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