Making It Count - Statistics and Statecraft in the Early People''s Republic of China

Summary

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

Product details

• Authors: Arunabh Ghosh
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2020
• EAN: 9780691179476
• ISBN: 978-0-691-17947-6
• No. of pages: 360
• Series: Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute; Histories of Economic Life
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); China, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, 20th Century, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Demography, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, HISTORY / Asia / China, India, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Asian History, Sociology & anthropology, Population & demography, Population and Demography, Sociology and anthropology, HISTORY / Asia / South / India