Tong Lam

A Passion for Facts (eBook, ePUB)

Social Surveys and the Construction of the Chinese Nation-State, 1900-1949

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Virginia Press
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780520950351
• Artikelnr.: 37839668

Autorenporträt

Tong Lam is Associate Professor of History at the University of Toronto.