A passion for facts
Subtitle: social surveys and the construction of the Chinese nation state, 1900-1949
By: Tong Lam
Series: Asia Pacific modern -- 9
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 263
ISBN-13: 9780520267862
Subjects: Social conditions; Social policy; Social surveys; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [227]-252) and index.
Table of contents: title: The rise of the fact and the re-imagining of China; title: From divide and count to combine and count; title: Foolish people versus soulstealers; title: The nationalization of facts and the affective state; title: Time, space, and state effect; title: China as a social laboratory.