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

"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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Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Ghosh, Arunabh, 1980- (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2020]
Collection:Histories of economic life.
Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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.