A Passion for Facts

出版者:University of California Press

作者:Tong Lam

页数:280

出版时间:2011-11-1

价格:USD 60.00

装帧:Hardcover

isbn号码:9780520267862

具体描述

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.

作者简介

Tong Lam is Associate Professor of History at the University of Toronto.

用户评价

重点在第二、三章。对此书的讨论，仅纠缠于方法论似乎意义不大。

need to rethink methodology

好

社会科学史挺有意思的，希望以后能读读共产党的社会调查运动

福柯用的有点死板