Making it count (Record no. 59731)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9780691179476
028 ## - DISTRIBUTOR NAME
Distributor Name : Zafaa Books & Distributors
Distributor address : 313/56F,Anand Nagar, Inderlok, Delhi-110035
Bill Number : ZBD0492
Bill Date : 22/10/2022
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 001.42 GHO
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Ghosh, Arunabh.
245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Making it count
Remainder of title : statistics and statecraft in the early People's Republic of China
Statement of responsibility, etc / Arunabh Ghosh.
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Place of publication, distribution, etc , Princeton
Name of publisher, distributor, etc : Princeton University Press
Date of publication, distribution, etc , 2020.
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent xvi, 340 pages
Dimensions : 24cm.
365 ## - TRADE PRICE
Price amount 4405
505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE
Contents note <br/>A new type of standardized statistical work<br/>Ascertaining social fact<br/>No "mean" solution : reformulating statistics, disciplining scientists<br/>The nature of statistical work<br/>To "ardently love statistical work" : state (in-) capacity, professionalization, and their discontents<br/>Seeking common ground amidst differences : the turn to India<br/>A "great leap" in statistics
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc "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"
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element China
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Statistical services
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element History
700 ## - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Arunabh Ghosh.
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    Dewey Decimal Classification   Not For Loan SNU LIBRARY SNU LIBRARY 03/11/2022 Zafaa Books 4405.00   001.42 GHO 28939 03/11/2022 03/11/2022 Books
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