Making it count: statistics and statecraft in the early People's Republic of China/ Arunabh Ghosh
Publication details: New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2020Description: xvi, 340 pages, 23 cmISBN:- 9780691179476
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Includes bibliographical references and index
A Statistical Revolution -- Scientists -- The Nature of Statistical Work -- State InCapacity -- A Great Leap in Statistics -- Conclusion
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.
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