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" A passion for facts : "
Tong Lam.
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BL
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630421
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dltt
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| Main Entry
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Lam, Tong,1967-
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A passion for facts : : social surveys and the construction of the Chinese nation state, 1900-1949 /\ Tong Lam.
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| Publication Statement
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Berkeley :: University of California Press,, c2011.
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| Series Statement
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Asia Pacific modern ;; 9.
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xiii, 263 p. :: ill. ;; 24 cm.
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9780520267862 (cloth : alk. paper)
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: 0520267869 (cloth : alk. paper)
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 175-221, 227-252) and index.
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| Contents
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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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| Abstract
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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.
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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.
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Social surveys-- China-- History-- 20th century.
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China, Social conditions, 1912-1949.
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China, Social policy.
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HN740.Z9S6752 2011
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