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Title Human rights and Asian values : contesting national identities and cultural representations in Asia / edited by Michael Jacobsen and Ole Bruun
Published Richmond : Curzon, 2000

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Description 330 pages ; 25 cm
Series Democracy in Asia series ; no. 6
Democracy in Asia ; no. 6
Contents Introduction / Ole Bruun and Michael Jacobsen -- 1. Since There Is No East and There Is No West, How Could Either Be the Best? / Edward Friedman -- 2. Universal Rights and Particular Cultures / Michael Freeman -- 3. Thick and Thin Accounts of Human Rights / Joseph Chan -- 4. Once Again, The Asian Values Debate / Maria Serena I. Diokno -- 5. Human Rights and Asian Values in Vietnam / Vo Van Ai -- 6. Particularism, Identities and a Clash of Universalisms / Jon O. Halldorsson -- 7. Modernization without Westernization? / Hugo Stokke -- 8. Human Rights in Vietnam / Tine Gummeltoft and Rolf Herno -- 9. Freedom as an Asian Value / David Kelly -- 10. The Chinese Debate on Asian Values and Human Rights / Marina Svensson -- 11. Universal Human Rights and Chinese Liberalism / Mab Huang -- 12. Practice to Theory / Colm Campbell and Avril McDonald -- 13. Human Rights Education in Asia / Richard Pierre Claude -- 14. The Rights of Foreign Migrant Workers in Asia / Deborah J. Milly
Notes "Derived from papers presented at a workshop held in Copenhagen in May 1997 under the title Human Rights and Asian Values". - pref
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Human rights -- Asia -- Congresses.
Human rights -- Asia.
Social values -- Asia -- Congresses.
Social values -- Asia.
SUBJECT Asia -- Politics and government -- 1945- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh87003817
Asia -- Politics and government. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85008623
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings.
Author Bruun, Ole, 1953-
Jakobsen, Michael (Economist)
Nordic Institute of Asian Studies.
LC no. 2004351865
ISBN 0700712127
0700712135 (paperback)
Other Titles Contesting national identities and cultural representations in Asia