Voting as a Rite: A History of Elections in Modern China

by Joshua B. Hill and Joshua Hill

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674237226
• ISBN13: 9780674237223
• Release Date: January 2019
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 316 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"