TY - BOOK AU - Lam,Tong ED - ebrary, Inc. TI - A passion for facts: social surveys and the construction of the Chinese nation state, 1900-1949 T2 - Asia Pacific modern AV - HN740.Z9 S6752 2011eb U1 - 300.72/051 22 PY - 2011/// CY - Berkeley PB - University of California Press KW - Social surveys KW - China KW - History KW - 20th century KW - Social conditions KW - 1912-1949 KW - Social policy KW - Electronic books KW - local N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; The rise of the fact and the re-imagining of China -- From divide and count to combine and count -- Foolish people versus soulstealers -- The nationalization of facts and the affective state -- Time, space, and state effect -- China as a social laboratory; Electronic reproduction; Palo Alto, Calif.; ebrary; 2013; Available via World Wide Web; Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries UR - http://site.ebrary.com/lib/daystar/Doc?id=10504626 ER -