عشق برای آمار: بررسی های اجتماعی و ساخت و ساز از چینی دولت-ملت، 1900-1949 A Passion for Facts: Social Surveys and the Construction of the Chinese Nation-State, 1900-1949
- نوع فایل : کتاب
- زبان : انگلیسی
- نویسنده : Tong Lam
- چاپ و سال / کشور: 2011
- شابک / ISBN : 0520267869, 978-0-520-26786-2
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 practicescensus, sociological investigation, and ethnographywas mobilized by competing political factions to imagine, manage, and remake the nation.
