Tong Lam
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3889252 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Tong Lam |
| PRENOMES | Tong |
| SOBRENOME | Lam |
| ASSINATURA | LAM T |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Toronto |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 6 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 4 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 6 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2010 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2022 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
At the Borderland of History
Drawing on field observations in Dandong and Sinuiju, corresponding border cities in China and North Korea, respectively, this extended visual essay meditates on the mutual imbrication of landscape and history in this border-contact zone. Whereas Chinese soldiers and tourists passing through Dandong once used North Korea—real or imagined—as the photographic backdrop to construct their socialist imageries from comradeship to the industrializing fu…
The Dark Side of the Miracle
In spite of their informal and substandard nature, Chinese urban villages are actually part of the infrastructure that institutionalizes and normalizes China's uneven development by providing cheap dormitory-style accommodations to the country's vast army of unskilled rural migrants who flock to cities as precarious laborers. This extended photo essay uses an urban village renewal project in the southern city Guangzhou to analyze the politics of …
A Passion for Facts
In this path-breaking book, Tong Lam examines the emergence of the "culture of fact" in modern China, showing how elites and intellectuals sought to transform the dynastic empire into a nation-state, thereby ensuring its survival. Lam argues that an epistemological break away from traditional modes of understanding the observable world began around the turn of the twentieth century. Tracing the Neo-Confucian school of evidentiary research and the…
Portable and Precarious
Migrant construction workers play a major role in China's rapid urbanization. In order to increase efficiency, construction companies routinely house their workers in prefabricated metal shelters. These portable, temporary, and container-like dormitories resonate strikingly with the precarious and disposable conditions of Chinese migrant construction workers. Meanwhile, within these enclosed and highly regulated spaces, the management also period…
A Passion for FactsSocial Surveys and the Construction of the Chinese Nation-State, 1900-1949
The Rise of the Fact and the Reimagining of China 2. From Divide and Rule to Combine and Count 3. Foolish People versus Soulstealers 4. The Nationalization of Facts and the Affective State 5. Time, Space, and State Effect 6. China as a Social Laboratory Epilogue Notes Glossary Bibliography Index
Policing the Imperial Nation
On 15 August 1902, a battalion of Chinese police officers under the command of Superintendent Zhao Bingjun marched into city center of Tianjin and toward the Yamen Complex, the ceremonial site where the Eight Power Alliance was handing back the city to Governor General Yuan Shikai after two years of occupation following the Boxer Uprising. As they approached the complex, allied officials and commanders, standing with Yuan Shikai and his entourage…
Policing the Imperial Nation
On 15 August 1902, a battalion of Chinese police officers under the command of Superintendent Zhao Bingjun marched into city center of Tianjin and toward the Yamen Complex, the ceremonial site where the Eight Power Alliance was handing back the city to Governor General Yuan Shikai after two years of occupation following the Boxer Uprising. As they approached the complex, allied officials and commanders, standing with Yuan Shikai and his entourage…
Policing the Imperial Nation
On 15 August 1902, a battalion of Chinese police officers under the command of Superintendent Zhao Bingjun marched into city center of Tianjin and toward the Yamen Complex, the ceremonial site where the Eight Power Alliance was handing back the city to Governor General Yuan Shikai after two years of occupation following the Boxer Uprising. As they approached the complex, allied officials and commanders, standing with Yuan Shikai and his entourage…
A Passion for FactsSocial Surveys and the Construction of the Chinese Nation-State, 1900-1949
The Rise of the Fact and the Reimagining of China 2. From Divide and Rule to Combine and Count 3. Foolish People versus Soulstealers 4. The Nationalization of Facts and the Affective State 5. Time, Space, and State Effect 6. China as a Social Laboratory Epilogue Notes Glossary Bibliography Index
Portable and Precarious
Migrant construction workers play a major role in China's rapid urbanization. In order to increase efficiency, construction companies routinely house their workers in prefabricated metal shelters. These portable, temporary, and container-like dormitories resonate strikingly with the precarious and disposable conditions of Chinese migrant construction workers. Meanwhile, within these enclosed and highly regulated spaces, the management also period…
A Passion for Facts
In this path-breaking book, Tong Lam examines the emergence of the "culture of fact" in modern China, showing how elites and intellectuals sought to transform the dynastic empire into a nation-state, thereby ensuring its survival. Lam argues that an epistemological break away from traditional modes of understanding the observable world began around the turn of the twentieth century. Tracing the Neo-Confucian school of evidentiary research and the…
At the Borderland of History
Drawing on field observations in Dandong and Sinuiju, corresponding border cities in China and North Korea, respectively, this extended visual essay meditates on the mutual imbrication of landscape and history in this border-contact zone. Whereas Chinese soldiers and tourists passing through Dandong once used North Korea—real or imagined—as the photographic backdrop to construct their socialist imageries from comradeship to the industrializing fu…
The Dark Side of the Miracle
In spite of their informal and substandard nature, Chinese urban villages are actually part of the infrastructure that institutionalizes and normalizes China's uneven development by providing cheap dormitory-style accommodations to the country's vast army of unskilled rural migrants who flock to cities as precarious laborers. This extended photo essay uses an urban village renewal project in the southern city Guangzhou to analyze the politics of …
Law (5 obras) · Political science (5 obras) · China (4 obras) · Sociology (4 obras) · Chinese history and philosophy (3 obras) · History (3 obras) · Archaeology (2 obras) · china (2 obras) · China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance (2 obras) · Economic growth (2 obras)