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Voting as a rite : a history of elections in modern China / Joshua Hill.
LIBRA JQ1518 .H55 2019
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hill, Joshua, 1977- author.
- Series:
- Harvard East Asian monographs ; 417.
- Harvard East Asian monographs ; 417
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Elections--China--History.
- Elections.
- Voting--China--History.
- Voting.
- History.
- China.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 297 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Asia Center, 2019.
- Summary:
- "For over a century, voting has been a surprisingly common political activity in China. This book re-examines China's experiments with elections from the perspective of intellectual and cultural history"--Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Rectifying names-inventing terms for elections, 1840-1898
- Selection and "public appointment" in Late Imperial China
- Imagining elections from afar
- Imagining elections from up close
- A (temporary) rectification of terms
- Transmission and re-creation-writing laws for voting, 1898-1908
- Examinations as "selection and appointment"
- The end of the civil service examination system
- Importing foreign models of "selection and appointment"
- Creating the late Qing/Early Republican election system
- The first elections and the last emperor-merit and campaigning, 1909-1911
- Surveying an electorate
- Election day(s) and the failure of spontaneous consensus
- "A single word from a campaigner"
- Free elections and the first republic-parties and the press, 1911-1913
- Pushing the boundaries of the 1908 regulations
- Building republican voters
- Political parties and political coordination
- Talking freely about elections
- Warlord democracy-coercion and coordination, 1913-1921
- Elections for a dictatorship
- Manipulation as coordination
- Idealism or manipulation?
- Elections as education-political tutelage, 1921-1987
- Provincial autonomy and the spread of direct, universal elections
- Voting and political tutelage in the Nanjing decade and after
- Voting in free China
- Voting without a choice-elections in the People's Republic, 1949-2018
- New China's "new" elections
- A Maoist interruption
- Training classes in democracy
- Conclusion: Democratization and the Chinese foundational myth of elections.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780674237223
- 0674237226
- 9780674237216
- 0674237218
- OCLC:
- 1048026439
- Publisher Number:
- 40028784219
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