Human Rights in Chinese Thought: A Cross-Cultural Inquiry Book

	Preface and Acknowledgments
	Chronology
Ch. 1	Introduction	1
1.1	Recent History	3
1.2	Current Approaches: Insights and Limitations	5
1.3	This Book	22
Ch. 2	Languages, Concepts, and Pluralism	26
2.1	Concepts	27
2.2	Conceptual Distances	39
2.3	Pluralism	45
Ch. 3	The Consequences of Pluralism	49
3.1	Our Own Values	51
3.2	Static Attitudes	57
3.3	Dynamic Engagement	65
3.4	Multiple Strategies and Divided Communities	70
Ch. 4	The Shift toward Legitimate Desires in Neo-Confucianism	74
4.1	Neo-Confucianism against Desire?	75
4.2	Embracing Desires	83
Ch. 5	Nineteenth-Century Origins	101
5.1	Translation of International Law	104
5.2	The Self-Strengthening Movement	111
5.3	Japan	115
5.4	Reformers in the 1890s	123
Ch. 6	Dynamism in the Early Twentieth Century	140
6.1	Liang and Jhering	141
6.2	Liu Shipei's Concept of Quanli	162
Ch. 7	Change, Continuity, and Convergence prior to 1949	178
7.1	Chen Duxiu	181
7.2	Gao Yihan	188
7.3	Convergence: John Dewey	194
7.4	Marxism and Leninism	200
Ch. 8	Engagement despite Distinctiveness	205
8.1	Rights and Interests	208
8.2	Rights and Harmony	225
8.3	Political versus Economic Rights	239
Ch. 9	Conclusions	250
	Bibliography	259
	Glossary and Index	275