Making it count : statistics and statecraft in the early People's Republic of China /

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"Among the biggest challenges facing leaders of the newly established People's Republic of China (PRC) was how much they did not know. In 1949, at the end of a long sequence of wars, the government of one of the largest states in the world committed to fundamentally re-engineering its soci...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Ghosh, Arunabh, 1980- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2020]
Colección:Histories of economic life.
Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University.
Temas:
1900-1999
Statistics > Political aspects > China > History > 20th century.
Statistique > Aspect politique > Chine > Histoire > 20e siècle.
HISTORY / Asia / China
Statistical services
China > Statistical services > History > 20th century.
China
A Passion for Facts: Social Surveys and the Construction of the Chinese Nation-State.
Anti-Rightist Campaign.
Austin Jersild.
Chinese population management.
Chinese statistical reports.
Chinese statistics.
Choh-ming Li.
Curating Revolution: Politics on Display in Mao's China.
Denise Ho.
Famine Politics in Maoist China and the Soviet Union.
Felix Wemheuer.
Great Leap Forward.
How Reason Almost Lost Its Mind.
Jennifer Altehenger.
Jeremy Friedman.
Legal Lessons: Popularizing Laws in the People's Republic of China.
Lorenz Lüthi.
Red Revolution, Green Revolution: Scientific Farming in Socialist China.
Shadow Cold War.
Sigrid Schmalzer.
Sino-Indian, PRC studies.
Ted Porter.
The Rise of Statistical Thinking.
The Sino-Soviet Alliance.
The Sino-Soviet Split.
The Statistical System of Communist China.
Tong Lam.
Trust in Numbers.
comparative statecraft.
economic governance.
economic policymaking.
ethnographic, exhaustive, stochastic approaches.
government statisticians.
historians of modern China.
modern Chinese history.
national statistical systems.
quantitative positivism.
quantitative techniques.
science and technology.
socialist statistics.
standardized statistical work.
statistical approaches.
statistical science.
statistical significance and random sampling.
tongji.
History
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • A new type of standardized statistical work
  • Ascertaining social fact
  • No "mean" solution : reformulating statistics, disciplining scientists
  • The nature of statistical work
  • To "ardently love statistical work" : state (in-) capacity, professionalization, and their discontents
  • Seeking common ground amidst differences : the turn to India
  • A "great leap" in statistics.

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