Tong Lam is Associate Professor of History at the University of Toronto.
发表于2024-05-17
A Passion for Facts 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书
图书标签: 社会学 海外中国研究 历史 中国近代史 中国 政治学 方法论 近代史
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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评分民族主义情感、民族国家构建脉络中的社会调查在中国的引进和本土化。主要集中在人口普查和治理术,还有少数民族、农民等social category的构建,社会调查同时作为社会管理/运动的必要部分。好些地方写得都不够深入,有以论代史倾向。江振勇的长书评击中一些要害。
评分我什么时候能写出这样的历史。最近读的又一本历史人类学好作品。中国史研究正在华丽丽的繁荣起来啊,北美学术果然强大。
评分非常完整的以年代为线索的总结
A Passion for Facts 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书