Legal LessonsThe 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 (19491976) and in the decade after Mao's death. Examining case studies such as the dissemination of the 1950