Download or read book Making It Count written by Arunabh Ghosh and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-03-31 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revision of author's thesis (doctoral)--Columbia University, 2014, titled Making it count: statistics and state-society relations in the early People's Republic of China, 1949-1959.

Download or read book Making It Count written by Arunabh Ghosh and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2022-01-11 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Among the biggest challenges facing leaders of the newly established People's Republic of China (PRC) was how much they did not know. In 1949, at the end of a long sequence of wars, the government of one of the largest states in the world committed to fundamentally re-engineering its society and economy via socialist planning while having almost no hard, reliable statistical data about their own country. This book is a history of attempts made to resolve this "crisis in counting." Drawing on a wealth of official, institutional, and private sources culled from China, India, and the United States, the author explores the choices made and the effects they engendered through a series of vivid encounters with political leaders, professional statisticians, academics, ordinary statistical workers, and even literary figures. Early reliance on Soviet-inspired methods of enumeration became increasingly untenable in China by the middle of the 1950s. A series of unprecedented and unexpected exchanges with Indian statisticians followed, as the Chinese sought to learn about the then exciting new technology of random sampling. These developments were, in turn, overtaken by the tumult of the Great Leap Forward (1958-1961), when both probabilistic and exhaustive methods were rejected and statistics was refashioned into an essentially ethnographic enterprise. The author argues that this history, usually narrowly described as a universal, if European history, cannot be understood without acknowledging Soviet and Indian influences which not only revises existing models of Cold War science but also globalizes the wider developments in the history of statistics and data. For historians of China and social science, and political scientists, sociologists, and anthropologists studying modern China"--

Download or read book China 1957 July 1960 written by and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This bibliography is a companion piece to the microfilm project of same title (on 28 reels) which contains the full text of the titles listed in the bibliography. The translations were performed by linguists under contract with the United States Joint Publications Research Service (JPRS), a federal agency established in 1957 to service the translation needs of various government research units. Materials to be translated are selected by Government scientists and researchers under contract. The majority of JPRS translations are in the social sciences. The focus is on economic, political and social developments in the communist world and in other foreign areas. Upon the initiative of the Social Science Research Council a group of sixty subscribing universities began to receive the JPRS translations on China in July-August 1960. The translations issued before this date were, however, not included in this or in any other subscription-distribution program. Since that material is of equal importance for studies on China, the present microfilm project of the JPRS reports included in this bibliography intends to fill this gap in the China field in providing these translations for the researcher."--Foreword

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