Human Rights and the Discourse on Universality: A Chinese Historical Perspective

X Xu - Negotiating Culture and Human Rights, 2001 - degruyter.com
Since the Tiananmen Square incident on June 4, 1989, and the end of the Cold War, the
issue of human rights has been a matter of contention in the relationship between China and …

4. Human Rights And Chinese Tradition

X Yong - The Philosophy of Civil Rights in the Context of China, 2011 - brill.com
Human rights are universal rights because they are the rights enjoyed by all human beings
and the contents of the human rights enjoyed by different people are universal in character …

The human rights idea in contemporary China: A comparative perspective

L Henkin - Human rights in contemporary China, 1986 - degruyter.com
An this essay I set forth first the idea of human rights and its contemporary articulation,
notably in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Then, because the United States was …

Continuing the Conversation on Chinese Human Rights1

RT Ames - Ethics & International Affairs, 1997 - cambridge.org
In recent years China has entered the international human rights debate, consistently
making the case for cultural diversity in the formulation of human rights policy. Ames follows …

Human Rights in China: An Alien Element in a Non-Western Culture?

H Roetz - Human Rights and Natural Law, 2012 - nomos-elibrary.de
China and human rights is a topic that time and again sparks off the debate on the
universality or relativity of ethical norms. It also has bearing on the question of the global …

Chinese values and human rights

A Kent - Human rights in Asia: A reassessment of the Asian …, 2008 - Springer
From its emergence as a fully fledged idea in the early 1990s, the concept of “Asian values”
appeared as a cultural construct erected by authoritarian political leaders in the Asian region …

Human Rights and Chinese Values: Legal, Philosophical, and Political Perspectives

MC Davis - 1995 - philpapers.org
In March 1993, in preparation for the United Nations World Conference on Human Rights,
representatives from the states of Asia gathered in Bangkok to formulate their position on …

Human Rights and Chinese Thought: A Cross-Cultural Inquiry. By Stephen C. Angle. Cambridge Modern China Series. Cambridge and New Yrok: Cambridge …

J Berthrong - The Journal of Asian Studies, 2005 - cambridge.org
There has been a flurry of fine books within the last decade on the debate about the history
and role of human rights in China, and Professor Stephen Angle has written one of the best …

The “Dignity within Oneself”: Chinese Tradition and Human Rights

H Roetz - Chinese thought in a global context, 1999 - brill.com
Does the question of human rights constitute a case for the" clash of civilizations"? This is
one of today's most hotly debated issues within comparative cultural studies and …

Conflicts over Human Rights between China and the US

Q Zhou - Human Rights Quarterly, 2005 - muse.jhu.edu
There is no doubt that different political systems are the essential reason for the conflicts
between the United States and China. However, more profound causes of the disagreement …