This book provides a comprehensive introduction to international human rights--
international human rights law, why international human rights have increasingly risen to …

Barton and Ho present a global vision of social and civic education, one that reorients the
field toward justice and harmony. Drawing from diverse philosophical and cultural traditions …

This book offers a unique insight into the role of human rights lawyers in Chinese law and
politics. In her extensive account, Eva Pils shows how these practitioners are important as …

This book argues that as new political and social values are formed in post-socialist China,
Christian values are becoming increasingly embedded in the new post-socialist Chinese …

Democratic political theory often sees collective action as the basis for non-coercive social
change, assuming that its terms and practices are always self-evident and accessible. But …

This article examines the role of regulation in advancing a robust or “covenantal” pluralism
in Singapore. I argue that a commitment to pluralism requires a regulated space where law …

Mou Zongsan 牟宗三 (1909-1995) was the theoretical genius behind New Confucianism, a
philosophical and cultural movement marking the revival of Ruxue in Asia and Northern …

This paper makes the case for including critical harmony as a complement to justice within
civic education. The concept of harmony is significant for civic education because it …

This paper uses the concept of stories of peoplehood to examine how the Singapore
government has constructed a story of harmony and to consider how this story has …

Religious harmony is an idea more commonly invoked in Asian countries, many of which are
closely associated with non-individualistic or non-liberal approaches to law, ethics, and …