Stephen Angle's Human Rights and Chinese Thought: A Cross-Cultural Inquiry (Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 2002) is a wonderful book that combines philosophically …

There has been a flurry of fine books within the last decade on the debate about the history
and role of human rights in China, and Professor Stephen Angle has written one of the best …

" Human rights" has become a global agenda. As history teaches, the status of missionaries
is always ambivalent, because one can distinguish between the quality of the message and …

Over the last decade, human rights has been one of the most debated issues in the"
dialogue" between Asia and the West. In fact, this" dialogue" has often more resembled a …

Human rights are universal rights because they are the rights enjoyed by all human beings
and the contents of the human rights enjoyed by different people are universal in character …

Analyzes Asian perspectives on human rights in terms of cultural traditions, grassroots and
regional organizations, and economic constraints on the expression of rights. The book …

In May of 2001 the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences invited a few western “experts” on
human rights to come to Beijing for a dialogue with their Chinese counterparts under the …

If the response of the human rights community to the “Asian values” debate is a reliable
indicator, human rights are in more trouble than is generally recognized. For striking about …

The" Asian values" argument within the international human rights debate holds that not all
Asian states should be expected to protect human rights to the same degree. This position …

Since the Tiananmen Square incident on June 4, 1989, and the end of the Cold War, the
issue of human rights has been a matter of contention in the relationship between China and …