Tong Lam is Associate Professor of History at the University of Toronto.
发表于2025-01-22
A Passion for Facts 2025 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.
夹生饭过了一遍,更多当成近代史名词翻译词典了 要是没有这本书,焦徽的毛概课该怎么活
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
评分看完想去读读太祖的东西了…(Tong Lam上课说话及其布置的reading颇为云山雾罩……自己写东西还是很清晰流畅哇????
评分作者在处理有些材料的时候挺自我的,比如说甘博与热衷“到民间去”的中国学者态度迥异,这一点真不知道他怎么读出来的。虽然甘博说北京调查的中断是因为张作霖占领北京,但是1928年马上国民军进驻北京,甘博要回北京做调查并不难。而且,晏阳初在之前已经陪同甘博去过一次定县看平教会,甘博自己也认为这是一个不幸带来的幸运。更重要的是,甘博1927年后在北京的研究兴趣已经转向京郊农村,对他而言那里更能反映社区问题。
A Passion for Facts 2025 pdf epub mobi 电子书