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A Passion for Facts: Social Surveys and the Construction of the Chinese Nation-State, 1900-1949 Volume 9

A Passion for Facts: Social Surveys and the Construction of the Chinese Nation-State, 1900-1949 Volume 9

Lam, Tong

Hardcover

Series: Asia Pacific Modern, Book 9

Chinese HistoryGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 0520267869
ISBN13: 9780520267862
Publisher: Univ Of California Pr
Published: Nov 1 2011
Pages: 280
Weight: 1.10
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
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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