具体描述
"The "Asian values" argument within the international human rights debate holds that not all Asian states can be or should be expected to protect human rights to the same degree due to varying levels of economic, political, and legal development and to differing cultural views on the virtues and necessity of freedom. This position of "cultural relativism," often used by authoritarian governments in Asia to counter charges of human rights violations, has been dismissed by many Western and Asian human rights advocates as a weak excuse. The East Asian Challenge for Human Rights moves beyond the politicized rhetoric that has dogged this debate to identify the more persuasive contributions by East Asian intellectuals to the evolving international debate on human rights." "The editors of this book argue that critical intellectuals in East Asia have begun to chart a middle ground between the extreme, uncompromising ends of this argument."--BOOK JACKET.
作者简介
目录信息
Pt. I. Critical Perspectives on the "Asian Values" Debate. Ch. 1. Liberal Democracy and Asian Orientalism / Inoue Tatsuo. Ch. 2. Human Rights and Asian Values: A Defense of "Western" Universalism / Jack Donnelly. Ch. 3. Human Rights and Economic Achievements / Amartya Sen
Pt. II. Toward a More Inclusive Human Rights Regime. Ch. 4. Toward an Intercivilizational Approach to Human Rights / Onuma Yasuaki. Ch. 5. Conditions of an Unforced Consensus on Human Rights / Charles Taylor
Pt. III. Culture and Human Rights. Ch. 6. The Cultural Mediation of Human Rights: The Al-Arqam Case in Malaysia / Abdullahi A. An-Na'im. Ch. 7. Grounding Human Rights Arguments in Non-Western Culture: Shari'a and the Citizenship Rights of Women in a Modern Islamic State / Norani Othman. Ch. 8. Looking to Buddhism to Turn Back Prostitution in Thailand / Sewanna Satha-Anand.
Ch. 9. A Confucian Perspective on Human Rights for Contemporary China / Joseph Chan
Pt. IV. Economic Development and Human Rights. Ch. 10. Rights, Social Justice, and Globalization in East Asia / Yash Ghai. Ch. 11. Economic Development, Legal Reform, and Rights in Singapore and Taiwan / Kevin Y. L. Tan. Ch. 12. Human Rights Issues in China's Internal Migration: Insights from Comparisons with Germany and Japan / Dorothy J. Solinger. Ch. 13. The Anti-Nuclear Power Movement in Taiwan: Claiming the Right to a Clean Environment / Mab Huang. Ch. 14. The Applicability of the International Legal Concept of "Indigenous Peoples" in Asia / Benedict Kingsbury.
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读后感
I would not agree with the fundamental argument in the articles collected in the book—that human right in the sense of its Western practice is universal, but I simply fail to refute it. Western human rights scholar, also including those legal scholars advo...
评分I would not agree with the fundamental argument in the articles collected in the book—that human right in the sense of its Western practice is universal, but I simply fail to refute it. Western human rights scholar, also including those legal scholars advo...
评分I would not agree with the fundamental argument in the articles collected in the book—that human right in the sense of its Western practice is universal, but I simply fail to refute it. Western human rights scholar, also including those legal scholars advo...
评分I would not agree with the fundamental argument in the articles collected in the book—that human right in the sense of its Western practice is universal, but I simply fail to refute it. Western human rights scholar, also including those legal scholars advo...
评分I would not agree with the fundamental argument in the articles collected in the book—that human right in the sense of its Western practice is universal, but I simply fail to refute it. Western human rights scholar, also including those legal scholars advo...
用户评价
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