The East Asian challenge for human rights /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Bauer, Joanne R., 1962-, Bell, Daniel (Daniel A.), 1964-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1999.
Subjects:	Human rights > East Asia. Human rights > Southeast Asia. Political culture > East Asia. Political culture > Southeast Asia. Economic development > Political aspects > East Asia. Economic development > Political aspects > Southeast Asia.

Table of 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.