Asian Values and Human Rights : A Confucian Communitarian Perspective / Wm. Theodore de Bary.
2022
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Title
Asian Values and Human Rights : A Confucian Communitarian Perspective / Wm. Theodore de Bary.
ISBN
9780674271951
Published
Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2022]
Copyright
©2000
Language
English
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In English.
Description
1 online resource (208 p.)
Item Number
10.4159/9780674271951 doi
Summary
Since the horrific Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989, the debate on human rights in China has raged on with increasing volume and shifting context, but little real progress. In this provocative book, one of our most learned scholars of China moves beyond the political shouting match, informing and contextualizing this debate from a Confucian and a historical perspective. "Asian Values" is a concept advanced by some authoritarian regimes to differentiate an Asian model of development, supposedly based on Confucianism, from a Western model identified with individualism, liberal democracy, and human rights. Highlighting the philosophical development of Confucianism as well as the Chinese historical experience with community organization, constitutionalism, education, and women's rights, Wm. Theodore de Bary argues that while the Confucian sense of personhood differs in some respects from Western libertarian concepts of the individual, it is not incompatible with human rights, but could, rather, enhance them. De Bary also demonstrates that Confucian communitarianism has historically resisted state domination, and that human rights in China could be furthered by a genuine Confucian communitarianism that incorporates elements of Western civil society. With clarity and elegance, Asian Values and Human Rights broadens our perspective on the Chinese human rights debate.
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Table of Contents
Frontmatter
Acknowledgments
Contents
1 "Asian Values" and Confucianism
2 Individualism and Personhood
3 Laws and Rites
4 School and Community
5 The Community Compact
6 Chinese Constitutionalism and Civil Society
7 Women's Education and Women's Rights
8 Chinese Communism and Confucian Communitarianism
Afterword
Notes
Works Cited
Index
Acknowledgments
Contents
1 "Asian Values" and Confucianism
2 Individualism and Personhood
3 Laws and Rites
4 School and Community
5 The Community Compact
6 Chinese Constitutionalism and Civil Society
7 Women's Education and Women's Rights
8 Chinese Communism and Confucian Communitarianism
Afterword
Notes
Works Cited
Index