Statistics and State-Building in Mao's China
Statistics and State-Building in Mao's China  
Podcast: Pekingology
Published On: Thu Jan 07 2021
Description: How did communist ideology affect state-building efforts in the early PRC? How and why does the current CCP leadership view statistics through the lens of politics? In this episode, Freeman Chair Jude Blanchette is joined by Arunabh Ghosh, an associate professor of Modern Chinese History at Harvard University to discuss his new book, Making it Count: Statistics and Statecraft in the Early People's Republic of China.