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2024-11-04
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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
作者寫作水平很高,理論框架的建立和錶達都很好,但是研究的確是有硬傷,福柯的理論並不能直接照搬,晚清人口調查的學術起源、學者和政府、社會改革者的關係以及具體學術研究的分析都太過粗淺甚至沒有涉及,從導論看到具體的章節的確是讓人失望的。
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評分作者寫作水平很高,理論框架的建立和錶達都很好,但是研究的確是有硬傷,福柯的理論並不能直接照搬,晚清人口調查的學術起源、學者和政府、社會改革者的關係以及具體學術研究的分析都太過粗淺甚至沒有涉及,從導論看到具體的章節的確是讓人失望的。
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A Passion for Facts 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載