Tong Lam is Associate Professor of History at the University of Toronto.
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.
發表於2024-05-17
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圖書標籤: 社會學 海外中國研究 曆史 中國近代史 中國 政治學 方法論 近代史
非常完整的以年代為綫索的總結
評分很喜歡。一本好書不需要麵麵俱到,我喜歡這種視野廣闊,思維發散,理論功底深厚的書。
評分need to rethink methodology
評分看完想去讀讀太祖的東西瞭…(Tong Lam上課說話及其布置的reading頗為雲山霧罩……自己寫東西還是很清晰流暢哇????
評分重點在第二、三章。對此書的討論,僅糾纏於方法論似乎意義不大。
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