Legal lessons
Subtitle: popularizing laws in the People's Republic of China, 1949-1989
By: Jennifer Altehenger
Series: Harvard East Asian monographs -- 411; Harvard East Asian monographs -- 411.
Publisher: Published by the Harvard University Asia Center
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 388
ISBN-13: 9780674983854
Subjects: Law; History
Description: "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 and society"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Part I. Preparations : 1949-1954. No legalese please : why the dissemination of laws became a problem; title: Paper trials : how the publishing field adapted to law propaganda; title: Part II. Practices : 1950-1962. What is a basic spirit? : the marriage law and the model legal education campaign; title: Getting people to abide by law : the Constitution draft discussion and its aftermath; title: Part III. Revivals : 1970-1989. Constitutional dilemmas : reworking law propaganda for a new socialist era; title: A new type of five-year plan : institutionalizing "common legal knowledge"; title: Conclusion.