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  • 7 - Another Way of Speaking?

  • Yi-Tang Lin, Université de Genève
  • Book:
    Statistics and the Language of Global Health
    Published online:
    27 October 2022
    Print publication:
    03 November 2022, pp 202-222
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    Chapter 7 explores the ways statistics were used to govern public health in the early People’s Republic of China (PRC), showcasing another way the language of statistics was spoken. The PRC was disconnected from the WHO’s statistical network during this time, and instead became part of an international health network made up of socialist countries. The chapter details the rise and fall of socialist statistics within the PRC and the methodological continuity maintained by public health researchers, despite the government’s enforced implementation of socialist statistics in the 1950s. The PRC during the period under study illustrates how statistical thinking continued to develop even as experts’ authority was called into question due to a series of anti-intellectual campaigns.