The Concrete Conditions of Human Rights: Western and Chinese Approaches

R Boer - International Critical Thought, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Based on the principle that universals are valid if they are concrete universals, this article
provides a comparison between Western liberal and Chinese Marxist approaches to human …

Sovereignty and Human Rights: A Comparison between Western Liberal and Chinese Marxist Traditions

R Boer - Political Theology, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
This study offers a comparison between the “rooted universals” of Western liberal and
Chinese Marxist approaches to human rights. I begin with sovereignty, which is redefined in …

[HTML][HTML] The Chinese Marxist Approach to Human Rights

D Shu - Open Journal of Philosophy, 2022 - scirp.org
The Western liberal view of human rights has been imposed by the West on the rest of the
world as universal values applicable to all cultures and traditions. This paper argues that the …

The Chinese Marxist Approach to Sovereignty and Human Rights

R Boer, R Boer - Socialism with Chinese Characteristics: A Guide for …, 2021 - Springer
Human rights is in China a component of socialist democracy. However, due to inordinate
Western interest in and misrepresentation of Chinese human rights, I deal with the topic in …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Rethinking on China's human rights ideology

C Zhishang - International Critical Thought, 2011 - Taylor & Francis
This paper introduces the achievements made by human rights scholars with regard to
China's human rights ideology over the past 30 years since China's reform and opening to …

Human Rights in Western Liberal Thinking

R Weatherley - The Discourse of Human Rights in China: Historical …, 1999 - Springer
Although the various nations and regions of the world might have, equally sustainable
conceptions of human rights, it is undoubtedly in Western societies that the human rights …

The Relative Universality of Human Rights: Theory and Practice

F Jizeng - Human Rights, 2013 - papers.ssrn.com
In this short essay which I published in a Chinese-based English Journal specific on human
rights study, I intend to focus my research on how to consolidate the human rights concept in …