Debating Human Rights (Asia's Transformations)

✍ Scribed by Peter Van Ness

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 1999
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 304
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Human rights debates can provoke strong reactions, particularly among people of different cultural backgrounds. The debate over Asian values and the use of human rights diplomacy are the most obvious manifestations of divisions between Asia and the West and reflect particular world views and historical legacies.In this new book, scholars from the United States and several Asian countries debate fundamental issues such as 'Asian values', 'peaceful evolution' and cultural imperialism. Provocative and challenging essays analyse the debate between East and West, presenting critical perspectives on globalization and human rights diplomacy.Debating Human Rights is an original contribution to a vital area of debate. It presents a uniquely wide diversity of perspectives on controversial issues and demonstrates how scholars and activists who view the world very differently can nonetheless move these debates forward in a search for common ground.

✦ Table of Contents

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
List of contributors......Page 10
Acknowledgments......Page 12
Introduction......Page 14
From human rights to human dignity......Page 38
The human rights debate in an era of globalization: hegemony of discourse......Page 45
Asia as a fount of universal human rights......Page 69
An Asian perspective on human rights and freedom of the press......Page 93
East meets West: human rights in Hong Kong......Page 114
Developmentalism and China's human rights policy......Page 133
Human rights as identities: difference and discrimination in Taiwan's China policy......Page 157
Reinventing international law: women's rights as human rights in the international community......Page 180
From Vienna to Beijing: women's human rights activism and the human rights community......Page 197
Human rights and development aid: Japan after the ODA Charter......Page 212
Human rights problems and current Sino-American relations......Page 245
From judge to participant: the United States as champion of human rights......Page 268
Conclusion......Page 291
Index......Page 295