Seeking truth and hiding facts : information, ideology, and authoritarianism in China / Jeremy L. Wallace. [electronic resource]

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wallace, Jeremy L., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Transparency (Ethics) in government--China.

Transparency (Ethics) in government.

Authoritarianism--China.

Authoritarianism.

Information policy--China.

Information policy.

Quantitative research--Political aspects--China.

Quantitative research.

China--Politics and government--1949-.

China.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (289 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2023]

Summary:

For decades, a few numbers came to define Chinese politics - until those numbers did not count what mattered and what they counted did not measure up. This book argues that the Chinese government adopted a system of limited, quantified vision in order to survive the disasters unleashed by Mao Zedong's ideological leadership. Jeremy Wallace explains how that system worked and analyzes how the problems that accumulated in its blind spots led Xi Jinping to take drastic action.

Contents:

Cover

Seeking Truth and Hiding Facts

Copyright

Epigraph

Contents

Acknowledgments

1. A Numbers Game

2. Quantifying Like a Regime

3. Seeking Truth

4. Aftershocks

5. Quantified Governance

6. Hiding Facts

7. A Neopolitical Turn

8. Beyond Count

Appendix 1: Evaluation Document Database List

Appendix 2: Investigations Correlated with Economic Risk

References

Index.

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2023.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on November 3, 2022).

Other Format:

Print version: Wallace, Jeremy L. Seeking Truth and Hiding Facts

ISBN:

0-19-762769-2

0-19-762767-6