圖書標籤: 社會學 海外中國研究 曆史 中國近代史 中國 政治學 方法論 近代史
发表于2025-04-15
A Passion for Facts pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2025
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.
作者寫作水平很高,理論框架的建立和錶達都很好,但是研究的確是有硬傷,福柯的理論並不能直接照搬,晚清人口調查的學術起源、學者和政府、社會改革者的關係以及具體學術研究的分析都太過粗淺甚至沒有涉及,從導論看到具體的章節的確是讓人失望的。
評分need to rethink methodology
評分非常喜歡,藉瞭圖書館的書不捨得還迴去。。從「社會調查」看政治權力的運籌帷幄以及modern nation state怎麼在個人的身份認同的構建中發揮作用,以晚清和民國的人口普查爲例,算是清晰、完整。特別喜歡涉及到少數民族的方麵,以及他是一位歷史學教授,同時還是是visual artist(星星眼)
評分重點在第二、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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A Passion for Facts pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2025