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Debating human rights : critical essays from the United States and Asia / edited by Peter Van Ness ; with contributions by Nikhil Aziz ... [et al.].

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Debating human rights : critical essays from the United States and Asia / edited by Peter Van Ness ; with contributions by Nikhil Aziz ... [et al.].
Publication
London ; New York : Routledge, 1999.

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Additional Authors
  • Aziz, Nikhil.
  • Van Ness, Peter
Description
xi, 291 p.; 24 cm.
Series Statement
Asia's transformations
Uniform Title
Asia's transformations.
Subject
  • Human rights > Asia
  • Human rights > East Asia
  • Human rights
  • United States > Foreign relations
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Introduction / Peter Van Ness -- Part I. Issues in dispute -- From human rights to human dignity / Chandra Muzaffar -- The human rights debate in an era of globalization : hegemony of discourse / Nikhil Aziz -- Asia as a fount of universal human rights / Edward Friedman -- An Asian perspective on human rights and freedom of the press / Kishore Mahbubani -- Part 2. Human rights in greater China -- East meets West : human rights in Hong Kong / Linda Butenhoff -- Developmentalism and China's human rights policy / Michael J. Sullivan -- Human rights as identities : difference and discrimination in Taiwan's China policy / Shih Chih-yu -- Part 3. Women's rights -- Reinventing international law : women's rights as human rights in the international community / Radhika Coomaraswamy -- From Vienna to Beijing : women's human rights activism and the human rights community / Manisha Desai -- Part 4. Human rights and international relations -- Human rights and development aid : Japan after the ODA Charter / Hoshino Eiichi -- Human rights problems and current Sino-American relations / Zhu Feng -- From judge to participant : the United States as champion of human rights / Daniel Wessner -- Conclusion / Peter Van Ness.
ISBN
  • 0415185068 (hbk.)
  • 0415185076 (pbk.)
  • 9780585460413 (electronic bk.)
LCCN
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Owning Institutions
Harvard Library