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A passion for facts :

(Number (ISBN

0520267869 (cloth : alk. paper)

(Number (ISBN

9780520267862 (cloth : alk. paper)

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Title Proper

A passion for facts :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

social surveys and the construction of the Chinese nation state, 1900-1949 /

First Statement of Responsibility

Tong Lam.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Berkeley :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

University of California Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

c2011.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

xiii, 263 p. :

Other Physical Details

ill. ;

Dimensions

24 cm.

Series Title

Asia Pacific modern ;

Volume Designation

9.

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. 175-221, 227-252) and index.

Text of Note

The rise of the fact and the re-imagining of China -- From divide and count 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.

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Text of Note

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. Show More Show Less.

Text of Note

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. Show More Show Less.

Social surveys-- China-- History-- 20th century.

China, Social conditions, 1912-1949.

China, Social policy.

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Lam, Tong,1967-

Date of Transaction

20120608115833.0

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[Book]

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