Tong Lam is Associate Professor of History at the University of Toronto.
发表于2025-02-24
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.
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评分前面很吸引人,后面。。
评分很喜欢。一本好书不需要面面俱到,我喜欢这种视野广阔,思维发散,理论功底深厚的书。
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评分非常喜歡,借了圖書館的書不捨得還回去。。從「社會調查」看政治權力的運籌帷幄以及modern nation state怎麼在個人的身份認同的構建中發揮作用,以晚清和民國的人口普查爲例,算是清晰、完整。特別喜歡涉及到少數民族的方面,以及他是一位歷史學教授,同時還是是visual artist(星星眼)
A Passion for Facts 2025 pdf epub mobi 电子书