Debating human rights in China : a conceptual and political history /

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Main Author: Svensson, Marina, 1961-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, [2002]
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Table of Contents:
  • Debating human rights in China : introductory perspectives
  • The conception of human rights in the West : historical origins and contemporary controversies
  • Culture and human rights : between universalism and relativism
  • China and the introduction of Western thought
  • Ideas of human rights in the early twentieth century : the quest for national salvation
  • The new culture movement and beyond : human rights and the liberation of the individual
  • The Nanking decade, 1927-1937 : liberal and radical voices on human rights
  • Human rights debates in wartime China : between individual freedom and national salvation
  • The 1950s : human rights debates on two sides of the Taiwan Strait
  • The domestic challenge over human rights : the Democracy Wall activists and the official reaction, 1978-1982
  • A contested and evolving discourse : human rights debates since the late 1980s
  • The Chinese human rights debate : conclusion and prospects.