A Passion for Facts: Social Surveys and the Construction of the Chinese Nation-State, 1900-1949 Volume 9

by Tong Lam

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520267869
• ISBN13: 9780520267862
• Release Date: November 2011
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.0"