Bréard A (2022)
Publication Language: English
Publication Type: Journal article, Review article
Publication year: 2022
Book Volume: 54
Pages Range: 323-327
URI: https://brill.com/view/journals/east/54/2/article-p323_010.xml
DOI: 10.1163/26669323-20220007
The quantification of natural and social phenomena as well as the statistical exploration of scientific data have been extensively studied by modern historians from many different angles, in particular in the fields of economics, medicine and psychology. But rarely have these narratives, often isolated by discipline, taken into account and analysed what happened outside of Western Europe and North America, although the potential richness of a history of quantification as it bears on the cultural study of objectivity beyond the usual geographic limitations has been acknowledged, for example, by Theodore Porter in his substantial study Trust in Numbers.
APA:
Bréard, A. (2022). Arunabh Ghosh, Making it Count: Statistics and Statecraft in the Early People’s Republic of China. East Asian Science, Technology, and Medicine, 54, 323-327. https://dx.doi.org/10.1163/26669323-20220007
MLA:
Bréard, Andrea. "Arunabh Ghosh, Making it Count: Statistics and Statecraft in the Early People’s Republic of China." East Asian Science, Technology, and Medicine 54 (2022): 323-327.
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