Director of the Fairbank Center; Henry L. Stimson Professor of Law
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2021-23 Graduate Student Associate; SJD Harvard Law School
Jennifer Altehenger explains how China’s party-state attempted to mobilize ordinary citizens to learn laws during the early years of the PRC.
Harvard Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies · Why Law Matters in Taiwan, with Margaret K. Lewis Why does law matter (and why wouldn’t it) in Taiwan? Professor Margaret Lewis talks
Harvard Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies · How to Survive as an Authoritarian Regime, with Martin Dimitrov The collapse of communist regimes at the end of the Cold War led
Harvard Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies · Law, Labor, and Online Censorship in China, with Mary Gallagher Mary Gallagher is a Professor of Political Science at the University of Michigan,
Maria Adele Carrai’s research examines how China’s legal history affects the country’s foreign policy.
Jennifer Altehenger asks how the early People’s Republic of China popularized basic legal knowledge About the book The popularization of basic legal knowledge is an important and contested technique of
Jennifer Altehenger’s 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.