A Passion for Facts : Social Surveys and the Construction of the Chinese Nation-State, 1900-1949 /

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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 tr...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Lam, Tong, 1967-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2011.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
China > Zusammenstellung
Sozialverwaltung
Nationalstaat
Empirische Sozialforschung
Social surveys.
Social policy.
Social conditions.
HISTORY > Asia > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Research.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Methodology.
Enquêtes sociales > Chine > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Social surveys > China > History > 20th century.
China.
China
Chine > Conditions sociales > 1912-1949.
China > Social policy.
China > Social conditions > 1912-1949.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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