{"product_id":"9780520267862-a-passion-for-facts","title":"A Passion for Facts","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSocial Surveys and the Construction of the Chinese Nation-State, 1900–1949\u003cbr\u003eIn focusing on China's social survey movement, this title 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.\u003cbr\u003eIn 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55974159286646,"sku":"9780520267862","price":71.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_27283076.jpg?v=1753163858","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780520267862-a-passion-for-facts","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}