Books

Articles

• Angle, Stephen C. Human Rights and Chinese Thought: A Cross-Cultural Inquiry (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002).
• Baehr, Peter R., et. al., eds. Human Rights: Chinese and Dutch Perspectives (The Hague: Kluwer Law International, 1996).
• Bauer, Joanne R. and Daniel A. Bell, eds. The East Asian Challenge for Human Rights (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1999).
  • Reviewed in Randall Peerenboom, "Human Rights and Asian Values: The Limits of Universalism," China Review International 6:2 (Fall 2000), pp. 295-320.*
  • Reviewed by Mahmood Moshipouri, Human Rights Quarterly 22:1 (2000), pp. 305-314.*
• Bell, Daniel A. East meets West. Human rights and democracy in East Asia (Princeton, Princeton University Press, 2000).
  • Reviewed by Franklin J. Woo, China Review International 8:1 (Spring 2001), pp. 69-72.*
  • Reviewed in Chih-yu Shih, "Opening the Dichotomy of Universalism and Relativism," Human Rights and Human Welfare 2:1 (2002).
• Bell, Lynda S., Nathan, Andrew J., and Peleg, Ilan, eds. Negotiating Culture and Human Rights (New York: Columbia University Press, 2001)
  • Reviewed in Chih-yu Shih, "Opening the Dichotomy of Universalism and Relativism," Human Rights and Human Welfare 2:1 (2002).
• Chan, Anita. China's Workers Under Assault: The Exploitation of Labor in a Globalizing Economy (Armonk, NY: ME Sharpe, 2002).
• de Bary, Wm. Theodore. Asian Values and Human Rights. A Confucian Communitarian Perspective (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1998).
  • Reviewed in Anthony C. Yu, "Which Values? Whose Perspective?" The Journal of Religion 80:2 (April 2000), pp. 299-304.
  • Reviewed by Tan-sar Hoon, China Review International 6:2 (Fall 1999), pp. 421-6.*
  • Reviewed by Franklin J. Woo, China Review International 7:2 (Fall 2000), pp. 429-33.*
• -----, and Tu Weiming, eds. Confucianism and Human Rights (New York: Columbia University Press, 1998).
  • Reviewed in Lionel M. Jensen, "Human Rights, Chinese Rites, and the Limits of History." The Historian 62:2 (Winter 2000), pp. 378-85.
  • Reviewed in Gregory J. Walters, "Is a Global Human Rights Community Possible?" International Philosophical Quarterly 39:2 (June 1999), pp. 209-215.
  • Reviewed by Marina Svensson in Journal of Asian Studies 58:2 (1999).
• Davis, Michael C., ed. Chinese Values and Human Rights (Hong Kong: Oxford University Press, 1995).
• Edwards, R. Randle, Louis Henkin, and Andrew J. Nathan, eds. Human Rights in Contemporary China (New York: Columbia University Press, 1986).
• Foot, Rosemary. Rights beyond borders. The global community and the struggle over human rights in China (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000).
  • Reviewed in David Forsythe, "Human Rights in China: A Review Essay." Human Rights Quarterly 23:4 (2001), pp. 1098-1105.*
• Hall, David L. and Roger T. Ames, The Democracy of the Dead. Dewey, Confucius, and the Hope for Democracy in China (Chicago: Open Court, 1999).
  • Reviewed by Haixia Wang Lan, China Review International 8:1 (Spring 2001), pp. 129-133.*
• Jacobsen, Michael and Ole Bruun, Human Rights and Asian Values: Contesting National Identities and Cultural Representations in Asia (Richmond, Curzon: 2000).
• Kent, Ann. Between freedom and subsistence. China and human rights (Hong Kong: Oxford University Press, 1993).
  • Reviewed by Kathryn Pongonis, Human Rights Quarterly 19:1 (1997), pp. 218-225.*
• -----. China, the United Nations, and human rights—The limits of compliance (Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999).
• Santoro, Michael A. Profits and principles. Global capitalism and human rights in China (Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 2000).
• Seymour, James D. and Richard Anderson, New Ghosts Old Ghosts: Prisons and Labour Reform Camps in China (Armonk and London: M. E. Sharpe, 1998).
  • Reviewed by Pittman B. Potter, China Review International 6:2 (Fall 1999), pp. 534-7.*
• Svensson, Marina. The Chinese conception of human rights: the debate on human rights in China, 1898-1949 (Ph.D. dissertation, Department of East Asian Languages, Lund University, Sweden, 1996).
• ---. Debating human rights in China: a conceptual and political history (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2002).
• Traeholt, Anne-Marie, and Errol. P. Mendes, eds., Human rights: Chinese & Canadian perspectives (Ottowa: Human Rights Research and Education Centre, 1997)
• Van Ness, Peter, ed. Debating human rights. Critical essays from United States and Asia (London: Routledge, 1999).
• Wan, Ming. Human Rights in Chinese Foreign Relations. Defining & Defending National Interests (Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001).
  • Reviewed in David Forsythe, "Human Rights in China: A Review Essay." Human Rights Quarterly 23:4 (2001), pp. 1098-1105.*
• Weatherley, Robert. The discourse of human rights in China. Historical and ideological perspectives (London: Macmillan Press Ltd, 1999).
  • Reviewed by Stephen C. Angle in Journal of Asian Studies 59:3 (August 2000), pp. 719-20.
  • Reviewed by Sor-hoon Tan, China Review International 7:2 (Fall 2000), pp. 559-64.*
• Wei Jingsheng; Kristina M. Torgeson, ed. and trans., The Courage to Stand Alone: Letters from Prison and Other Writings (New York: Viking, 1997).
  • Reviewed by Wei-chin Lee, China Review International 6:2 (Fall 1999), pp. 550-3.*