Book Cover; Title; Contents; Preface; Introduction; Since There Is No East and There Is No West, How Could Either Be the Best?; Universal Rights and Particular Cultures; Thick and Thin Accounts of Human Rights; Once Again, The Asian Values Debate; Human Rights and Asian Values in Vietnam; Particularism, Identities and a Clash of Universalisms; Modernization without Westernization?; Human Rights in Vietnam; Freedom as an Asian Value; The Chinese Debate on Asian Values and Human Rights; Universal Human Rights and Chinese Liberalism; Practice to Theory; Human Rights Education in Asia
Summary
The Asian challenge to the universality of human rights has caused intense debate. Here is a clear stand for universal rights, theoretically and empirically, through an analysis of social and political processes in Asia. Asian values are linked to the struggle between authoritarian and democratic forces, which both tend to convey stereotyped images of the "West", but with reversed meanings
Notes
"Derived from papers presented at a workshop held in Copenhagen in May 1997 under the title Human Rights and Asian Values"--Preface
