Human Rights in Asia
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Human Rights in Asia

A Reassessment of the Asian Values Debate

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Human Rights in Asia

A Reassessment of the Asian Values Debate

About this book

This book offers a critical reassessment of the 'Asian values' debate, which dominated the human rights discourse in the late 1990s, and a reappraisal of the human rights situation in Asia since then. The chapters in this book contextualize the debate and examine in what ways the issues raised then continue to trouble Asian societies.

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Yes, you can access Human Rights in Asia by D. Kingsbury, D. Kingsbury,Kenneth A. Loparo,Leena Avonius in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Politics & International Relations & Civil Rights in Law. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Preface
  4. Note on Contributors
  5. Introduction
  6. 1 Universalism and Exceptionalism in “Asia”
  7. 2 Asia Values? Why Not, But How?
  8. 3 Human Rights from the Left: The Early Chinese Democracy Movement
  9. 4 Chinese Values and Human Rights
  10. 5 From Marsinah to Munir: Grounding Human Rights in Indonesia
  11. 6 From “Asian Values” to Singapore Exceptionalism
  12. 7 Human Rights in Thailand: Rhetoric or Substance on “Asian Values”
  13. 8 “Asian Values,” Gender, and Culture-Specific Development
  14. 9 The Nation-State and Its Violence: Debates in Post–Cold War Japan
  15. 10 Walking the Line between the “War on Terror” and the Defense of Human Rights
  16. Bibliography
  17. Index