| Description |
xxiii, 327 pages ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
Preface / Wm. Theodore de Bary -- Introduction / Wm. Theodore de Bary -- 1. A Constructive Framework for Discussing Confucianism and Human Rights / Sumner B. Twiss -- 2. Human Rights: A Bill of Worries / Henry Rosemont, Jr. -- 3. Human Rights: A Valid Chinese Concept? / Julia Ching -- 4. On the Rites and Rights of Being Human / D. W. Y. Kwok -- 5. Mencius and Human Rights / Irene Bloom -- 6. The Confucian Theory of Norms and Human Rights / Wejen Chang -- 7. Transforming Confucian Virtues Into Human Rights / Chung-ying Cheng -- 8. The Yellow Emperor Tradition as Compared to Confucianism / Yu Feng -- 9. Rites and Rights in Ming China / Ron Guey Chu -- 10. Confucianism and Due Process / Alison W. Conner -- 11. The Concept of People's Rights (Minquan) in the Late Qing / Joan Judge -- 12. Citizenship and Human Rights in Early Twentieth Century Chinese Thought / Peter Zarrow -- 13. Confucian Harmony and Freedom of Thought / Randall Peerenboom |
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14. Confucian Influence on Intellectuals in the Peoples' Republic of China / Merle Goldman -- 15. Confucianism Contested: Human Rights and the Chinese Tradition in Contemporary Chinese Political Discourse / Jeremy T. Paltiel -- Epilogue: Human Rights as a Confucian Moral Discourse / Tu Weiming -- Epilogue: Confucianism, Human Rights, and "Cultural Relativism" / Louis Henkin |
| Summary |
What is the place of human rights in a society shaped by Confucian principles? Can Confucianism offer useful perspectives on the Western conception of human rights? In this enlightening volume, eighteen leading Western and Chinese authorities on Confucian tradition, modern China, and modern human rights address these timely questions. They offer a balanced forum that seeks common ground, providing needed perspective at a time when the Chinese government, after years of denouncing Confucianism as an aritfact of a feudal past, has made an abrupt reversal to endorse it as a belief system compatible with communist ideology. In using Confucianism as a lens for which to evaluate the strengths and limitations of the principles of human rights, this book makes a significant contribution to understanding the complicated issues surrounding the "values" debate between China, some Asian regimes, and the West |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Human rights -- China.
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Confucianism.
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| Author |
Tu, Weiming, 1940-
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De Bary, Wm. Theodore, 1919-2017.
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| LC no. |
97014687 |
| ISBN |
0231109377 paperback |
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0231109369 |
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