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 […]
Law
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.
Xiaoqian Hu, a Graduate Student Associate at Harvard’s Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies and a S.J.D. Candidate at Harvard Law School, describes how Chinese farmers mitigate conflicts between their livelihoods and the environmental concerns of local governments.
Harvard Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies · Same-Sex Marriage in Taiwan: Politics, LGBT Rights, and International Reputation, with George Yin On May 24, 2017, a court in Taipei struck down
Annemieke van den Dool examines how public health scandals influence China’s laws, and how prepared China is for a new pandemic.