Voting as a rite : a history of elections in modern China
Joshua Hill
Bok · Engelsk · 2019
| Omfang | XI, 297 sider : illustrasjoner
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| Opplysninger | 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.. - "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"
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| ISBN | 9780674237216. - 9780674237223
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