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Making It Count: Statistics and Statecraft in the Early People's Republic of China (Histories of Economic Life, 23) by Arunabh Ghosh, 1980- is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
What is Making It Count: Statistics and Statecraft in the Early People's Republic of China (Histories of Economic Life, 23) about?
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 committed to fundamentally reengineering its society and economy via socialist planning while having almost no reliable statistical data about their own c
Who reads Making It Count: Statistics and Statecraft in the Early People's Republic of China (Histories of Economic Life, 23)?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Arunabh Ghosh, 1980-
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Published
- 2020
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780691199214
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Science, Anthropology, Computer Science
- Updated
- 2026-03-25