新书：《投票作为一种仪式：近代中国选举史》

Voting as a Rite

A History of Elections in Modern China

Harvard East Asian Monographs 417

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$32.00 • £23.95 • €29.00

ISBN 9780674237223

Publication: March 2019

316 pages

6 x 9 inches

8 photos, 4 illus., 1 table

出版时间： 02/04/2019

出版社：哈佛大学出版社

作者简介：

Joshua Hill：俄亥俄大学历史系助理教授，主要研究方向是近现代东亚史，尤其侧重中国近代以来的政治理念和国际关系。

Joshua Hill is Assistant Professor in the Department of History. He is a historian of 19th- and 20th-century China. Inspired by his experiences living in Ningbo, Zhejiang Province and Changsha, Hunan Province during the late 1990s and early 2000s, Hill’s research focuses on the circulation and adaptation of political ideas and attitudes in modern China. His manuscript, Voting as a Rite: Changing Ideas of Elections in Early Twentieth Century China, examines how voting (a surprisingly frequent activity in 20th century China) shaped both popular and elite understandings of politics from the final years of China’s last imperial dynasty to the early days of Communist rule.

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代表作：“Translator’s Foreword,” in English translation of Xu Qiyu, Fragile Rise: Grand Strategy and the Fate of Imperial Germany, 1871-1914 [Cuiruo de jueqi: dazhanlüe yu Deyizhi diguo de mingyun] (Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, forthcoming).

“Xuanmin jiaoyu: liansheng zizhi yundong yu Zhongguo xuanju fa de biange [Voter Education: Provincial Autonomy and the Transformation of Chinese Election Law, 1920-23],” in Minguo shiqi de falü, zhengzhi, yu shehui [Republican Era Law, Politics, and Society], Chinese translation by Zhao Yanjie, edited by Wen-hsin Yeh and Wang Chaoguang (Beijing: Social Sciences Academic Press, forthcoming).

“Senkyo undō wa futōda!: 1912-13 nen senkyo e no hihan [Elections Based on Campaigning are Incompatible with the Truth: Rethinking Early Republican Elections],” in Chūgoku gikai hyakunen [A Hundred Years of China’s Parliament], Japanese translation by Ienaga Masaki, edited by Fukamachi Hideo (Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press, 2015).

"Seeking Talent at the Voting Booth: Elections and the Problem of Campaigning in the Late Qing and Early Republic," Twentieth-Century China 38.3 (October 2013), 213-29.

"Voter Education: Provincial Autonomy and the Transformation of Chinese Election Law, 1920-23," Cross-Currents: East Asian History and Culture Review E-Journal 7 (June 2013), 5-29 and Print Journal 2.2 (November 2013), 307-34.

本书简介：

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.