The East Asian challenge for human rights

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ISBN	9780521645362 (pbk.)
ISBN	0521645360 (pbk.)
Call Number	JC599.E18 E132 1999
Title	The East Asian challenge for human rights / edited by Joanne R. Bauer, Daniel A. Bell
Imprint	Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1999.
Physical	394 p. ; 23 cm.
Contents Note	Liberal democracy and Asian orientalism / Inoue Tatsuo --Human rights and Asian values: a defense of "Western" universalism / Jack Donnelly --Human rights and economic achievements / Amartya Sen --Toward an intercivilizational approach to human rights / Onuma Yasuaki -- Conditions of an unforced consensus on human rights / Charles Taylor --The cultural mediation of human rights: the Al-Arqam case in Malaysia /^tAbdullahi A. An-Na'im --Grounding human rights arguments in non-Western culture: Shari'a and the citizenship rights of women in a modern Islamic state / Norani Othman --Looking to Buddhism to turn back prostitution in Thailand / Suwanna Satha-Anand --A Confucian perspective on human rights for contemporary China / Joseph Chan --Rights, social justice, and globalization in East Asia / Yash Ghai --Economic development, legal reform, and rights in Singapore and taiwan / Kevin Y.L. Tan --Human rights issues in China's internal migration: insights from comparisons with Germany and Japan / Dorothy J. Solinger --The anti-nuclear power movement in Taiwan: claiming the right to a clean environment / Mab Huang --The applicability of the international legal concept of "indigenous peoples" in Asia / Benedict Kingsbury.
Summary	"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."--Jacket
Founding Information Note	With the compliments of Ms. Atchara Shayakul
Subject	Human rights--East Asia
Subject	Humgn rights--Southeast Asia
Subject	Political culture--East Asia
Subject	Political culture--Southeast Asia
Subject	Economic development--Political aspects--East Asia
Subject	Economic development--Political aspects--Southeast Asia
Coorperative Author	Bauer, Joanne R
Coorperative Author	Bell, Daniel A.
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245 00^aThe East Asian challenge for human rights /^cedited by Joanne R. Bauer, Daniel A. Bell

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520 ^a"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."--Jacket

536 ^aWith the compliments of Ms. Atchara Shayakul

650 0^aHuman rights^zEast Asia 0^aHumgn rights^zSoutheast Asia 0^aPolitical culture^zEast Asia 0^aPolitical culture^zSoutheast Asia 0^aEconomic development^xPolitical aspects^zEast Asia 0^aEconomic development^xPolitical aspects^zSoutheast Asia

700 1 ^aBauer, Joanne R 1 ^aBell, Daniel A.

856 40^3Content^uhttp://library.nhrc.or.th/ulib/document/Content/T11750.pdf

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