TY - BOOK ID - 86105814 TI - Making it count : statistics and statecraft in the early People's Republic of China PY - 2020 SN - 0691199213 PB - Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Statistics KW - Statistical services. KW - Data collection services KW - Information services KW - Statistical analysis KW - Statistical data KW - Statistical methods KW - Statistical science KW - Mathematics KW - Econometrics KW - Political aspects KW - History KW - China KW - Statistical services KW - A Passion for Facts: Social Surveys and the Construction of the Chinese Nation-State. KW - Anti-Rightist Campaign. KW - Austin Jersild. KW - Chinese population management. KW - Chinese statistical reports. KW - Chinese statistics. KW - Choh-ming Li. KW - Curating Revolution: Politics on Display in Mao’s China. KW - Denise Ho. KW - Famine Politics in Maoist China and the Soviet Union. KW - Felix Wemheuer. KW - Great Leap Forward. KW - How Reason Almost Lost Its Mind. KW - Jennifer Altehenger. KW - Jeremy Friedman. KW - Legal Lessons: Popularizing Laws in the People’s Republic of China. KW - Lorenz Lüthi. KW - Red Revolution, Green Revolution: Scientific Farming in Socialist China. KW - Shadow Cold War. KW - Sigrid Schmalzer. KW - Sino-Indian, PRC studies. KW - Ted Porter. KW - The Rise of Statistical Thinking. KW - The Sino-Soviet Alliance. KW - The Sino-Soviet Split. KW - The Statistical System of Communist China. KW - Tong Lam. KW - Trust in Numbers. KW - comparative statecraft. KW - economic governance. KW - economic policymaking. KW - ethnographic, exhaustive, stochastic approaches. KW - government statisticians. KW - historians of modern China. KW - modern Chinese history. KW - national statistical systems. KW - quantitative positivism. KW - quantitative techniques. KW - science and technology. KW - socialist statistics. KW - standardized statistical work. KW - statistical approaches. KW - statistical science. KW - statistical significance and random sampling. KW - tongji. KW - Cina KW - Kinë KW - Cathay KW - Chinese National Government KW - Chung-kuo kuo min cheng fu KW - Republic of China (1912-1949) KW - Kuo min cheng fu (China : 1912-1949) KW - Chung-hua min kuo (1912-1949) KW - Kina (China) KW - National Government (1912-1949) KW - China (Republic : 1912-1949) KW - People's Republic of China KW - Chinese People's Republic KW - Chung-hua jen min kung ho kuo KW - Central People's Government of Communist China KW - Chung yang jen min cheng fu KW - Chung-hua chung yang jen min kung ho kuo KW - Central Government of the People's Republic of China KW - Zhonghua Renmin Gongheguo KW - Zhong hua ren min gong he guo KW - Kitaĭskai︠a︡ Narodnai︠a︡ Respublika KW - Činská lidová republika KW - RRT KW - Republik Rakjat Tiongkok KW - KNR KW - Kytaĭsʹka Narodna Respublika KW - Jumhūriyat al-Ṣīn al-Shaʻbīyah KW - RRC KW - Kitaĭ KW - Kínai Népköztársaság KW - Chūka Jinmin Kyōwakoku KW - Erets Sin KW - Sin KW - Sāthāranarat Prachāchon Čhīn KW - P.R. China KW - PR China KW - PRC KW - P.R.C. KW - Chung-kuo KW - Zhongguo KW - Zhonghuaminguo (1912-1949) KW - Zhong guo KW - Chine KW - République Populaire de Chine KW - República Popular China KW - Catay KW - VR China KW - VRChina KW - 中國 KW - 中国 KW - 中华人民共和国 KW - Jhongguó KW - Bu̇gu̇de Nayiramdaxu Dundadu Arad Ulus KW - Bu̇gu̇de Nayiramdaqu Dumdadu Arad Ulus KW - Bu̇gd Naĭramdakh Dundad Ard Uls KW - BNKhAU KW - БНХАУ KW - Khi︠a︡tad KW - Kitad KW - Dumdadu Ulus KW - Dumdad Uls KW - Думдад Улс KW - Kitajska KW - China (Republic : 1949- ) UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:86105814 AB - A history of how Chinese officials used statistics to define a new society in the early years of the People's Republic of China In 1949, at the end of a long period of wars, one of the biggest challenges facing leaders of the new People's Republic of China was how much they did not know. The government of one of the world's largest nations was committed to fundamentally reengineering its society and economy via socialist planning while having almost no reliable statistical data about their own country. Making It Count is the history of efforts to resolve this "crisis in counting." Drawing on a wealth of sources culled from China, India, and the United States, Arunabh Ghosh explores the choices made by political leaders, statisticians, academics, statistical workers, and even literary figures in attempts to know the nation through numbers.Ghosh shows that early reliance on Soviet-inspired methods of exhaustive enumeration became increasingly untenable in China by the mid-1950s. 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 overtaken by the tumult of the Great Leap Forward (1958-61), when probabilistic and exhaustive methods were rejected and statistics was refashioned into an ethnographic enterprise. By acknowledging Soviet and Indian influences, Ghosh not only revises existing models of Cold War science but also globalizes wider developments in the history of statistics and data.Anchored in debates about statistics and its relationship to state building, Making It Count offers fresh perspectives on China's transition to socialism. ER -