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.
Tong Lam is Associate Professor of History at the University of Toronto.
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福柯用的有点死板
评分民族主义情感、民族国家构建脉络中的社会调查在中国的引进和本土化。主要集中在人口普查和治理术,还有少数民族、农民等social category的构建,社会调查同时作为社会管理/运动的必要部分。好些地方写得都不够深入,有以论代史倾向。江振勇的长书评击中一些要害。
评分很喜欢。一本好书不需要面面俱到,我喜欢这种视野广阔,思维发散,理论功底深厚的书。
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评分如果几年前,我可能会比较喜欢这本书。但是现在理论也比较熟了,也开始正儿八经地做档案研究了,就不太满意这类作品了。作者的前言写得很好,文笔按照后殖民的标准看非常优美。但是正文里的很多章节,过于偏重于理论论述 ,很多时候都是浅尝辄止。我最不满意的是最后一章,作者根本就没说清楚。我特别期待他在前言里所说的把中国放在global colonial context考察,可是读下来似乎并没有什么呀。或许是因为我没有精读本书,以上可能是错解?
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