Bøger af Tong Lam
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- Social Surveys and the Construction of the Chinese Nation-State, 1900-1949
956,95 kr. In this path-breaking book, Tong Lam examines the emergence of the "e;culture of fact"e; 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, "e;the fact"e; 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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- 956,95 kr.