| Description |
xiii, 293 pages ; 22 cm |
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1. China and the International Law of Human Rights. Problems of Definition and Priority. Problems of Jurisdiction and Enforcement -- 2. Human Rights from Imperial to Communist China -- 3. Human Rights in China, 1949-1979. Civil and Political Rights: Formal and Informal. Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights: Formal and Substantive -- 4. Civil and Political Rights in China, 1979-1989. Formal Civil and Political Rights. Informal Civil and Political Rights. China's Changing International and Domestic Position on Human Rights -- 5. Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights, 1979-1989. Formal Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights. Substantive Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights -- 6. The Critique of China's Human Rights Before June 1989. The Chinese Critique. The External Critique -- 7. The 1989 Chinese Democracy Movement and Human Rights: April 1989-January 1990. Origins. The Events of April-June 1989 and their Aftermath. Domestic and International Repercussions |
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8. Human Rights in Post-Tiananmen China. Internal Developments. International Pressures and the Chinese Government Response |
| Summary |
The People's Republic of China has long been at the heart of the debate between socialist, Third World, and Western concepts of human rights. In the 1990s, nowhere is the tension between the individual and the State, and between international and domestic law, more intense. This refreshing study places the human rights debate in the context of the profound economic, political, and social changes China's people have undergone in the post-Mao era. Market reforms have undermined Communist-style economic and social rights. At the same time, the demands of China's increasingly pluralist and international society for political freedoms and legal guarantees, remain unreconciled with the Communist regime's desire to retain power. China's challenge, author Ann Kent argues, is to establish human rights protections encompassing both the subsistence rights currently endorsed by its government, and the right to physical security emphasized in the West. Her critical, but balanced, analysis is an essential guide to the historical and cultural roots of China's current human rights dilemmas and the uncertain road ahead |
| Analysis |
China |
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Rights |
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China |
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Rights |
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China |
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History |
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Human rights |
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Human rights violations |
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International law |
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Overseas item |
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Political change |
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State sponsored violence |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages [279]-283 |
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Includes index |
| Notes |
Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program by Penny Miller in memory of Bill Brugger |
| Subject |
Civil rights -- China.
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Human rights -- China.
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| SUBJECT |
China -- Social conditions. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85024178
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| LC no. |
92019756 |
| ISBN |
0195855191 |
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0195855213 (paperback) |
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