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The East Asian Challenge for Human Rights
The East Asian Challenge for Human Rights, The Asian values argument within the international human rights debate holds that not all Asian states should be expected to protect human rights to the same degree. This position of cultural relativism, often used by authoritarian governments in Asia, The East Asian Challenge for Human Rights has a rating of 2.5 stars
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  • The East Asian Challenge for Human Rights
  • Written by author Joanne R. Bauer
  • Published by Cambridge University Press, February 1999
  • The "Asian values" argument within the international human rights debate holds that not all Asian states should be expected to protect human rights to the same degree. This position of "cultural relativism," often used by authoritarian governments in Asia
  • This book identifies the more persuasive contributions by East Asian intellectuals to the international human rights debate. Richard Halloran While the Asian and Western scholars who wrote and edited this volume are too polite to say so di
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Preface
Editor's Note
Introduction3
Pt. ICritical Perspectives on the "Asian Values" Debate
Ch. 1Liberal Democracy and Asian Orientalism27
Ch. 2Human Rights and Asian Values: A Defense of "Western" Universalism60
Ch. 3Human Rights and Economic Achievements88
Pt. IIToward a More Inclusive Human Rights Regime
Ch. 4Toward an Intercivilizational Approach to Human Rights103
Ch. 5Conditions of an Unforced Consensus on Human Rights124
Pt. IIICulture and Human Rights
Ch. 6The Cultural Mediation of Human Rights: The Al-Arqam Case in Malaysia147
Ch. 7Grounding Human Rights Arguments in Non-Western Culture: Shari'a and the Citizenship Rights of Women in a Modern Islamic State169
Ch. 8Looking to Buddhism to Turn Back Prostitution in Thailand193
Ch. 9A Confucian Perspective on Human Rights for Contemporary China212
Pt. IVEconomic Development and Human Rights
Ch. 10Rights, Social Justice, and Globalization in East Asia241
Ch. 11Economic Development, Legal Reform, and Rights in Singapore and Taiwan264
Ch. 12Human Rights Issues in China's Internal Migration: Insights from Comparisons with Germany and Japan285
Ch. 13The Anti-Nuclear Power Movement in Taiwan: Claiming the Right to a Clean Environment313
Ch. 14The Applicability of the International Legal Concept of "Indigenous Peoples" in Asia336
Index379


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