| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 263 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Asia Pacific modern ; 9 |
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Asia Pacific modern ; 9.
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| Contents |
The rise of the fact and the re-imagining of China -- From divide and rule to combine and count -- Foolish people versus soulstealers -- The nationalization of facts and the affective state -- Time, space, and state effect -- China as a social laboratory |
| Summary |
"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"--Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| SUBJECT |
China Zusammenstellung gnd |
| Subject |
Social surveys -- China -- History -- 20th century
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Methodology.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Research.
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HISTORY -- Asia -- General.
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Social conditions
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Social policy
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Social surveys
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Empirische Sozialforschung
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Nationalstaat
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Sozialverwaltung
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| SUBJECT |
China -- Social conditions -- 1912-1949. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85024183
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China -- Social policy
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| Subject |
China
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China
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780520950351 |
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0520950356 |
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1283291878 |
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9781283291873 |
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9786613291875 |
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6613291870 |
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