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A Passion for Facts
Social Surveys and the Construction of the Chinese Nation-State, 1900-1949 Volume 9
Tong Lam
144,45 €
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Description
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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Parties prenantes
- Auteur(s) :
- Editeur:
Contenu
- Nombre de pages :
- 280
- Langue:
- Anglais
- Collection :
- Tome:
- n° 9
Caractéristiques
- EAN:
- 9780520267862
- Date de parution :
- 01-11-11
- Format:
- Livre relié
- Format numérique:
- Genaaid
- Dimensions :
- 155 mm x 229 mm
- Poids :
- 498 g
