Legal Lessons : : Popularizing Laws in the People's Republic of China, 1949-1989 / / Jennifer E. Altehender

"Offers a new perspective on the sociocultural and political history of law in socialist China by telling the story of how the party-state attempted to mobilize ordinary citizens to learn laws. Exams various case studies to trace the dissemination of legal knowledge at different levels of state...

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Superior document:Studies in Netherlandish Art and Cultural History ; 411
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Place / Publishing House:Boston : : Harvard University Asia Center,, 2018.
Leiden; , Boston : : BRILL,, 2018.
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
Series:Studies in Netherlandish Art and Cultural History ; 411.
Physical Description:1 online resource (1 online resource)
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction Part I. Preparations: 1949-1954: No legalese please: why the dissemination of laws became a problem
  • Paper trials: how the publishing field adapted to law propaganda
  • Part II. Practices: 1950-1962: What is a basic spirit?: the marriage law and the model legal education campaign
  • Getting people to abide by law: the Constitution draft discussion and its aftermath
  • Part III. Revivals: 1970-1989: Constitutional dilemmas: reworking law propaganda for a new socialist era
  • A new type of five-year plan: institutionalizing "common legal knowledge"-- Conclusion.