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Human rights and Chinese thought : a cross-cultural inquiry /

"China poses great challenges to human rights in theory and practice. In practice, China is considered, by the measure of most Western countries, to have a patchy record of protecting individuals' human rights. In the theoretical realm, Chinese intellectuals and government officials have c...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Angle, Stephen C., 1964-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002.
Colección:Cambridge modern China series.
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  • Machine generated contents note: Ch. 1 Introduction
  • 1.1. Recent History
  • 1.2. Current Approaches: Insights and Limitations
  • 1.3. This Book
  • Ch. 2 Languages, Concepts, and Pluralism
  • 2.1. Concepts
  • 2.2. Conceptual Distances
  • 2.3. Pluralism
  • Ch. 3 Consequences of Pluralism
  • 3.1. Our Own Values
  • 3.2. Static Attitudes
  • 3.3. Dynamic Engagement
  • 3.4. Multiple Strategies and Divided Communities
  • Ch. 4 Shift toward Legitimate Desires in Neo-Confucianism
  • 4.1. Neo-Confucianism against Desire?
  • 4.2. Embracing Desires
  • Ch. 5 Nineteenth-Century Origins
  • 5.1. Translation of International Law
  • 5.2. Self-Strengthening Movement
  • 5.3. Japan
  • 5.4. Reformers in the 1890s
  • Ch. 6 Dynamism in the Early Twentieth Century
  • 6.1. Liang and Jhering
  • 6.2. Liu Shipei's Concept of Quanli
  • Ch. 7 Change, Continuity, and Convergence prior to 1949
  • 7.1. Chen Duxiu
  • 7.2. Gao Yihan
  • 7.3. Convergence: John Dewey
  • 7.4. Marxism and Leninism
  • Ch. 8 Engagement despite Distinctiveness
  • 8.1. Rights and Interests
  • 8.2. Rights and Harmony
  • 8.3. Political versus Economic Rights
  • Ch. 9 Conclusions.