- List of Tables and Figures*
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. Rectifying Names: Inventing Terms for Elections, 1840–1898
- 2. Transmission and Re-Creation: Writing Laws for Voting, 1898–1908
- 3. The First Elections and the Last Emperor: Voting and Campaigning, 1909–1911
- 4. Free Elections and the First Republic: Parties and the Press, 1911–1913
- 5. Warlord Democracy: Coercion and Coordination, 1913–1921
- 6. Elections as Education: Political Tutelage, 1921–1987
- 7. Voting without a Choice: Elections in the People’s Republic, 1949–2018
- Conclusion: Democratization and the Discourse of Elections in China
- Character List
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- * Tables and Figures
- Tables
- 1. Primary-Stage Voting and Revoting in Wu County, 1909
- Figures
- 1. Frequency of terms gong ju and xuanju to mean “election/voting” in Shenbao headlines, 1872–1901
- 2. Frequency of terms gong ju and xuanju to mean “election/voting” in Shenbao headlines, 1905–1911
- 3. Frequency of terms gong ju and xuanju to mean “election/voting” in headlines of forty-one Chinese periodicals, 1872–1911
- 4. Relative frequency of the use of the term yundong to mean “election campaigning” during the 1909 provincial assembly elections
- 5. “Yuzhong xuanju yundong [Election Campaigning in the Rain]”
- 6. “Xuanju yundong [Election Campaigning]”
- 7. “Xuanju yundong er [Election Campaigning 2]”
- 8. A model ballot for the 1912 parliamentary election
- 9. “Miss Mei Votes in China’s First General Election”
- 10. “Women you xuanjuquan he bei xuanjuquan” [We Have the Right to Vote and to Be Elected] (1953)
- 11. “Use your democratic rights in accordance with the law/Cast a sacred ballot.” Propaganda slogan for the 2016 local People’s Congress election in Changsha, Hunan
- 12. The former provincial legislature building in Changsha, Hunan
- Tables
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