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Subject: H-ASIA: Query on Chinese agricultural statistics - response


> H-ASIA
> February 5, 2013
>
> Query on Chinese agricultural statistics - response
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> From: "Diamant, Neil" <diamantn@dickinson.edu>
>
> Hi everyone,
> In considering statistics we should not forget that they require skilled
> statisticians. These folks were in very short supply during the Nanjing
> decade, and those who remained on the mainland after 1949 were unlikely to
> stick their necks out very far in the name of accurate reporting. Their
> ranks dwindled further after the anti-rightist campaign. If memory serves,
> Yasheng Huang has an article in World Politics on PRC statistics. I recall
> the figure of 500 people or so who worked at the State Statistical Bureau
> in Beijing, hardly enough to go around! Statistical reporting might be
> considered part of what Michael Mann called 'Infrastructural power', and
> this was not the CCP's forte during the Mao years, and arguably today as
> well.
>
> Neil Diamant
> Dickinson College
>
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