Joshua Hill is Assistant Professor of History at Ohio University.
For over a century, voting has been a surprisingly common political activity in China. Voting as a Rite examines China’s experiments with elections from the perspective of intellectual and cultural history. Rather than arguing that such exercises were either successful or failed attempts at political democracy, the book instead focuses on a previously unasked question: how did those who participated in Chinese elections define success or failure for themselves? Answering this question reveals why Chinese elites originally became enamored of elections at the end of the nineteenth century, why critics complained about elections that featured real competition in the early twentieth century, and why elections continued to be held after the mid-twentieth century even though outcomes were predetermined by the state. While no mainland Chinese government has ever felt that its rule required validation at the ballot box, the discourses that surrounded elections reveal much about important tensions within modern Chinese political thought. What is the best means to identify talent? Can the state trust the people to act responsibly as citizens? As Joshua Hill shows, elections are vital, not peripheral, to understanding these concerns fully.
發表於2024-12-22
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圖書標籤: 政治學 海外中國研究 文化史 投票 海外漢學 民主轉型 民主史 比較政治
攤子有點鋪得太開,目標應該一本關於選舉的通史,但是落腳還是以個案為主,比如過於倚重包天笑的論述瞭
評分攤子有點鋪得太開,目標應該一本關於選舉的通史,但是落腳還是以個案為主,比如過於倚重包天笑的論述瞭
評分這本書告訴我們:投票雖然沒用也是很重要的
評分這本書告訴我們:投票雖然沒用也是很重要的
評分攤子有點鋪得太開,目標應該一本關於選舉的通史,但是落腳還是以個案為主,比如過於倚重包天笑的論述瞭
Voting as a Rite 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載