The Chinese Human Rights Reader: Documents and Commentary, 1900-2000Representative selections from China's twentieth-century human rights discourse, rendered into fluid and non-technical English. The documents are arranged chronologically, and each is preceded by a brief introduction dealing with the author and the immediate context. The book also includes a glossary in which translations of key terms are linked to their Chinese equivalents. |
Contents
On Citizens 1901 | 3 |
Chinese Culture and Human Rights | 5 |
vi | 10 |
On Rights 1903 | 15 |
The Peoples Legal Right to Freedom 1903 | 24 |
Textbook on Ethics 1905 | 37 |
Human Relationships Peoples Rights | 45 |
If the Citizens Want to Rid Themselves of the Evils | 49 |
viii | 245 |
An Initial Inquiry into the Contemporary Theory | 247 |
Human Rights Equality and Democracy 1979 | 253 |
A Rebuttal to the Critique of Human Rights 1979 | 273 |
How Marxism Views the Human Rights | 281 |
Is Human Rights Always a Bourgeois Slogan? | 288 |
Human Relationships Peoples Rights and Human | 297 |
The Origin and Historical Development of Human | 307 |
The New Culture Movement May Fourth | 55 |
Developing Countries and Human Rights | 57 |
The French and Modern Civilization 1915 | 62 |
The Constitution and Confucianism 1916 | 67 |
The Constitution and Freedom of Thought 1916 | 76 |
Manifesto of the Struggle for Freedom 1920 | 89 |
The Spirit of Contemporary Democracy 1920 | 92 |
The Question of Peoples Rights in the Provincial | 99 |
Eastern and Western Cultures and Their | 101 |
The Principle of Peoples Power 1924 | 114 |
Human Rights and the Provisional Constitution | 130 |
On Human Rights 1929 | 138 |
The New Culture Movement and the Human Rights | 152 |
Two Excerpts 1933 and 1936 | 161 |
Manifestos of the China League for the Protection | 172 |
19371949 | 183 |
The Human Rights Protection Regulations | 185 |
The Program of the Human Rights Movement | 192 |
Human Rights Are the Basis of Constitutionalism 1946 | 197 |
Proclamation on the Current State of Political | 201 |
Chinese Statements During Deliberations | 206 |
19491975 | 208 |
Rightist Statements 1957 | 217 |
Do You Want to Be a Human Being? 1958 | 229 |
A Criticism of the Views of Bourgeois International | 239 |
Open Letter to Deng Xiaoping 1989 | 319 |
Declaration of Human Rights May 1989 | 321 |
Who Are the True Defenders of Human Rights? | 323 |
Three Existential Forms 1991 | 333 |
Prison Letter 1991 | 343 |
White Paper on Human Rights in China 1991 | 355 |
Individual and Collective Rights | 357 |
Statement on the Issue of Human Rights in China 1991 | 364 |
Human Rights and Chinese Tradition 1992 | 372 |
Freedom of Speech | 380 |
Vienna Conference Statement 1993 | 390 |
Developing Countries and Human Rights 1994 | 396 |
What Are Asian Values? 1998 | 409 |
Declaration on Civil Rights and Freedoms 1998 | 413 |
Freedom of Speech Is the Foremost Human Right 1998 | 423 |
Chinas Irreversible | 436 |
Taiwan Urgently Needs a National Human Rights | 443 |
Asian Values | 446 |
Address by President Chen Shuibian on the Occasion | 450 |
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