Human Rights In The People's Republic Of China

by Yuan-li Wu

Overview

This book examines the effects that political institutions, the legal system, and economic policies have had on the human rights record in the PRC since 1949. The authors first address the problems of assessing political liberties in a nation that emphasizes economic over civil rights and that has traditionally valued collective rights over individ

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780429721977
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	04/10/2019
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	344
File size:	4 MB

About the Author

Wu, Yuan-li

Table of Contents

Preface -- Introduction: An Overview -- Human Rights and the Establishment of Nationwide Control -- Defining Human Rights in the People’s Republic of China -- Building a Network of Controls: A Chronological Outline -- The PRC System from 1949 to 1984 -- Law: A Tool of Power -- Human Rights and the Chinese Political System -- The Economy: An Object of Experimentation -- Ideology, Reality, and Human Rights -- The Victim Groups -- Counterrevolutionaries -- Victims by Economic Category: Farmers, Businesspeople, and Workers -- Intellectuals and “Democratic Elements”: A Distmsted Underclass -- Red Guards and Political Dissidents (I): Tools of Violence and Power Struggle -- Red Guards and Political Dissidents (II): Victims Beyond a Generation -- Factions -- Women -- Non-Chinese Nationalities and Religious Communities -- Conclusion -- Let the Record Speak for Itself -- A Statistical Analysis of Judicial Practice and the Human Rights Condition in the People’s Republic of China -- A 1979 Chinese Declaration of Human Rights