Title page-The Mirage of China; Contents; Preface; Prologue:Making Up Numbers; Part I-Moral Mathematics; Chapter 1-The Mentality og Governance; Chapter 2-The Facticity of Social Facts; Part II-Statistics, Metaphysics, and Ethics; Chapter 3-Discipline and Punish; Chapter 4-The Specter of Marx; Part III-Reason and Revolution; Chapter 5-The Taming of Chance; Chapter 6-Interiorization; Chapter 7-Exteriorization; Acknowledgements; References; Index
Summary
Today's world is one marked by the signs of digital capitalism and global capitalist expansion, and China is increasingly being integrated into this global system of production and consumption. As a result, China's immediate material impact is now felt almost everywhere in the world; however, the significance and process of this expansion is far from understood. As such, this study provides a response to the call for developing the project of an anthropology of modernity. It shows how the a priori categories of statistical reasoning came to be re-born and re-lived in the People's Republic - as
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 200-206) and index
