Jennifer Altehenger is Lecturer in Contemporary Chinese History in the Department of History at King’s College London.
The popularization of basic legal knowledge is an important and contested technique of state governance in China today. Its roots reach back to the early years of Chinese Communist Party rule. Legal Lessons tells the story of how the party-state attempted to mobilize ordinary citizens to learn laws during the early years of the Mao period (1949–1976) and in the decade after Mao’s death.
Examining case studies such as the dissemination of the 1950 Marriage Law and successive constitutions since 1954 in Beijing and Shanghai, Jennifer Altehenger traces the dissemination of legal knowledge at different levels of state and society. Archival records, internal publications, periodicals, advice manuals, memoirs, and colorful propaganda materials reveal how official attempts to determine and promote “correct” understanding of written laws intersected with people’s interpretations and practical experiences. They also show how diverse groups—including party-state leadership, legal experts, publishers, writers, artists, and local officials, along with ordinary people—helped to define the meaning of laws in China’s socialist society. Placing mass legal education and law propaganda at the center of analysis, Legal Lessons offers a new perspective on the sociocultural and political history of law in socialist China.
發表於2024-11-18
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圖書標籤: 法律史 曆史 共和國 中國當代史 PRC 海外漢學 比較政治 中國研究
還闊以吧
評分牛津完瞭
評分牛津完瞭
評分並不是一本關於法律係統或socialist law本身的書,而側重討論“守法”觀念與重要的法規如何宣傳,以及在此過程中宣傳係統所受的掣肘。一旦接受其作為一本宣傳機製史的設定,就還蠻紮實可讀的,且可與李靜君和雷雅雯的書對照閱讀。
評分還闊以吧
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