Legal Lessons : Popularizing Laws in the People's Republic of China, 1949-89
- Submitting institution
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King's College London
- Unit of assessment
- 28 - History
- Output identifier
- 107327561
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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- Publisher
- Harvard University Asia Center/Harvard University Press
- ISBN
- 9780674983854
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- February
- Year of publication
- 2018
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- This is a 400+ page-book based on a substantial amount of primary research in German and Chinese archives, much of which was wholly untapped and/or never analysed in English previously. It is the first book to place mass legal education and the use of law as propaganda at the heart of the history of law in Maoist China. The basic position—that legal knowledge is a powerful propaganda tool in the service of the state (rather than as resistance to it) carries major comparative significance for the entire historical field.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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