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Confucianism and human rights / edited by Wm. Theodore de Bary and Tu Weiming.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextNew York : Columbia University Press, c1998Description: xxiii, 327 pagesContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0231109369(hardback)
  • 0231109377 (paperback)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • JC599.C6 CON
Contents:
A constructive framework for discussing Confucianism and human rights / Summer B. Twiss -- Human rights: a bill of worries / Henry Rosemont Jr. -- Human rights: a valid Chinese concept? / Julia Ching -- On the rites and rights of being human / D.W.Y. Kwok -- Mencius and human rights / Irene Bloom -- The Confucian theory of norms and human rights / Wejen Chang -- Transforming Confucian virtues into human rights / Chung-ying Cheng -- The yellow emperor tradition as compared to Confucianism / Yu Feng -- Rites and rights in Ming China / Ron Guey Chu -- Confucianism and due process / Alison W. Conner -- The concept of people's rights (Minquan) in the late Qing / Joan Judge -- Citizenship and human rights in early twentieth century Chinese thought / Peter Zarrow -- Confucian harmony and freedom of thought / Randall Peerenhoom -- Confucian influence on intellectuals in the Peoples' Republic of China / Merle Goldman -- 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.
A constructive framework for discussing Confucianism and human rights / Summer B. Twiss -- Human rights: a bill of worries / Henry Rosemont Jr. -- Human rights: a valid Chinese concept? / Julia Ching -- On the rites and rights of being human / D.W.Y. Kwok -- Mencius and human rights / Irene Bloom -- The Confucian theory of norms and human rights / Wejen Chang -- Transforming Confucian virtues into human rights / Chung-ying Cheng -- The yellow emperor tradition as compared to Confucianism / Yu Feng -- Rites and rights in Ming China / Ron Guey Chu -- Confucianism and due process / Alison W. Conner -- The concept of people's rights (Minquan) in the late Qing / Joan Judge -- Citizenship and human rights in early twentieth century Chinese thought / Peter Zarrow -- Confucian harmony and freedom of thought / Randall Peerenhoom -- Confucian influence on intellectuals in the Peoples' Republic of China / Merle Goldman -- 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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

A constructive framework for discussing Confucianism and human rights / Summer B. Twiss -- Human rights: a bill of worries / Henry Rosemont Jr. -- Human rights: a valid Chinese concept? / Julia Ching -- On the rites and rights of being human / D.W.Y. Kwok -- Mencius and human rights / Irene Bloom -- The Confucian theory of norms and human rights / Wejen Chang -- Transforming Confucian virtues into human rights / Chung-ying Cheng -- The yellow emperor tradition as compared to Confucianism / Yu Feng -- Rites and rights in Ming China / Ron Guey Chu -- Confucianism and due process / Alison W. Conner -- The concept of people's rights (Minquan) in the late Qing / Joan Judge -- Citizenship and human rights in early twentieth century Chinese thought / Peter Zarrow -- Confucian harmony and freedom of thought / Randall Peerenhoom -- Confucian influence on intellectuals in the Peoples' Republic of China / Merle Goldman -- 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.

A constructive framework for discussing Confucianism and human rights / Summer B. Twiss -- Human rights: a bill of worries / Henry Rosemont Jr. -- Human rights: a valid Chinese concept? / Julia Ching -- On the rites and rights of being human / D.W.Y. Kwok -- Mencius and human rights / Irene Bloom -- The Confucian theory of norms and human rights / Wejen Chang -- Transforming Confucian virtues into human rights / Chung-ying Cheng -- The yellow emperor tradition as compared to Confucianism / Yu Feng -- Rites and rights in Ming China / Ron Guey Chu -- Confucianism and due process / Alison W. Conner -- The concept of people's rights (Minquan) in the late Qing / Joan Judge -- Citizenship and human rights in early twentieth century Chinese thought / Peter Zarrow -- Confucian harmony and freedom of thought / Randall Peerenhoom -- Confucian influence on intellectuals in the Peoples' Republic of China / Merle Goldman -- 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.

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