| Description |
xiii, 394 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Liberal democracy and Asian orientalism / Inoue Tatsuo -- Human rights and Asian values: a defense of "Western" universalism / Jack Donnelly -- Human rights and economic achievements / Amartya Sen -- Toward an intercivilizational approach to human rights / Onuma Yasuaki -- Conditions of an unforced consensus on human rights / Charles Taylor -- The cultural mediation of human rights: the Al-Arqam case in Malaysia / Abdullahi A. An-Na'im -- Grounding human rights arguments in non-Western culture: Shari'a and the citizenship rights of women in a modern Islamic state / Norani Othman -- Looking to Buddhism to turn back prostitution in Thailand / Suwanna Satha-Anand -- A Confucian perspective on human rights for contemporary China / Joseph Chan -- Rights, social justice, and globalization in East Asia / Yash Ghai -- Economic development, legal reform, and rights in Singapore and taiwan / Kevin Y.L. Tan -- Human rights issues in China's internal migration: insights from comparisons with Germany and Japan / Dorothy J. Solinger -- The anti-nuclear power movement in Taiwan: claiming the right to a clean environment / Mab Huang -- The applicability of the international legal concept of "indigenous peoples" in Asia / Benedict Kingsbury. |
| Subject |
Human rights -- East Asia.
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Human rights -- Southeast Asia.
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Political culture -- East Asia.
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Political culture -- Southeast Asia.
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Economic development -- Political aspects -- East Asia.
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Economic development -- Political aspects -- Southeast Asia.
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| Added Author |
Bauer, Joanne R., 1962-
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Bell, Daniel (Daniel A.), 1964-
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| ISBN |
0521642302 hb |
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0521645360 paperback |
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