A Passion for Facts

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

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

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

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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.

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。

好

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????

常读常新

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。