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.
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前麵很吸引人,後麵。。
评分重點在第二、三章。對此書的討論,僅糾纏於方法論似乎意義不大。
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评分如果幾年前,我可能會比較喜歡這本書。但是現在理論也比較熟瞭,也開始正兒八經地做檔案研究瞭,就不太滿意這類作品瞭。作者的前言寫得很好,文筆按照後殖民的標準看非常優美。但是正文裏的很多章節,過於偏重於理論論述 ,很多時候都是淺嘗輒止。我最不滿意的是最後一章,作者根本就沒說清楚。我特彆期待他在前言裏所說的把中國放在global colonial context考察,可是讀下來似乎並沒有什麼呀。或許是因為我沒有精讀本書,以上可能是錯解?
评分為什麼現在曆史書都寫的那麼薄啊,感覺上肉不夠多,而且又不都是瘦肉。。。
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