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

By (author) Tong Lam

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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 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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