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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2002.
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Colección: | Cambridge modern China series.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.