The Chinese Human Rights Reader: Documents and Commentary, 1900-2000: Documents and Commentary, 1900-2000

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ISBN: 9780765606938 | 0765606933
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Copyright: 7/31/2001

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Includes translations of sixty selections from China's twentieth-century human rights discourse, along with commentary on the context. A glossary links translations of key terms to their Chinese equivalents.

Acknowledgments

General Introduction

xiii

Notes on Further Readings and Selected General Bibliography

xxxi

Alternative Thematic Table of Contents

xxxiii

Romanization, Pronunciation, and Abbreviations

xli

Permissions

xliii

Part I. Last Years of the Qing Dynasty: 1900-1911

On Citizens (1901) Anonymous

(2)

On Rights Consciousness (1902)

(10)

Liang Qichao

On Rights (1903) Anonymous

(9)

The People's Legal Right to Freedom (1903)

(5)

Zhinazi Pseudonym

The Revolutionary Army (1903)

(8)

Zou Rong

Textbook on Ethics (1905)

(5)

Liu Shipei

First Speech of Miss Xu Yucheng from Jinkui to the Women's World (1907)

(7)

Xu Yucheng

If the Citizens Want to Rid Themselves of the Evils of Autocracy, They Must Have Political Power (1908)

(8)

Ma Weilong

Part II. The New Culture Movement, May Fourth, and the Twenties: 1914-1926

Self-Awareness (1914)

(5)

Zhang Shizhao

The French and Modern Civilization (1915)

(5)

Chen Duxiu

The Constitution and Confucianism (1916)

(9)

Chen Duxiu

The Constitution and Freedom of Thought (1916)

(5)

Li Dazhao

The State Is Not the Final End of Life (1915)

(7)

Gao Yihan

Manifesto of the Struggle for Freedom (1920)

(4)

Hu Shi

Jiang Menglin

Tao Menghe

Wang Zheng

Zhang Weici

Li Dazhao

Gao Yihan

The Spirit of Contemporary Democracy (1920)

(7)

Tan Mingqian

The Question of People's Rights in the Provincial Constitutions (1921)

(2)

Gao Yihan

Eastern and Western Cultures and Their Philosophies (1921)

101

(13)

Liang Shuming

The Principle of People's Power (1924)

114

(5)

Sun Yatsen

Foreword to Renquan Magazine (1925) Anonymous

119

(8)

Part III. The Nanjing Decade: 1927-1937

The Basis and Particulars of the Principle of People's Rights (1928)

127

(3)

Zhou Fohai

Human Rights and the Provisional Constitution (1929)

130

(8)

Hu Shi

On Human Rights (1929)

138

(14)

Luo Longji

The New Culture Movement and the Human Rights Movement (1931)

152

(9)

Peng Kang

Two Excerpts (1933 and 1936)

161

(4)

Wu Jingxiong

A Discussion of Constitutional Stipulations Concerning the People's Rights (1933)

165

(11)

Qiu Hanping

Manifestos of the China League for the Protection of Civil Rights (1932 and 1933)

China League for the Protection of Civil Rights

172

(4)

The Protection of Civil Rights (1933)

176

(11)

Hu Shi

Part IV. War with Japan and Civil War: 1937-1949

The Human Rights Protection Regulations of Shandong Province (1940)

Provincial Council of Shandong Province

185

(2)

On Policy (1940)

187

(5)

Mao Zedong

The Program of the Human Rights Movement (1941)

192

(5)

Zhou Jingwen

Human Rights Are the Basis of Constitutionalism (1946)

197

(4)

Zhang Junmai

Proclamation on the Current State of Political Affairs (1947) China Democratic League

201

(5)

Chinese Statements During Deliberations on the UDHR (1948)

206

(11)

P.C. Chang

Part V. 1949-1975

Rightist Statements (1957)

217

(5)

Pu Zhongwen

He Shifen

Feng Guojiang

A Discussion of ``Human Dignity'' (1957)

222

(7)

Zuo Ai

Do You Want to Be a Human Being? (1958)

229

(10)

Yin Haiguang

A Criticism of the Views of Bourgeois International Law on the Question of Population (1960)

239

(8)

Qian Si

Part VI. 1976-1986, Including the Democracy Wall Movement

An Initial Inquiry into the Contemporary Theory of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (1976)

247

(6)

Mab Huang

Human Rights, Equality, and Democracy (1979)

253

(9)

Wei Jingsheng

A Chinese Declaration of Human Rights: Nineteen Points (1979) China Human Rights League

262

(5)

Problems in Chinese Society: Questions and Answers (1979)

267

(6)

Yu Fan

A Rebuttal to the Critique of ``Human Rights'' (1979)

273

(8)

Du Guo

How Marxism Views the Human Rights Question (1979)

281

(7)

Xiao Weiyun

Luo Haocai

Wu Xieying

Is ``Human Rights'' Always a Bourgeois Slogan? A Discussion with Comrade Xiao Weiyun and Others (1979)

288

(9)

Lan Ying

Human Relationships, People's Rights, and Human Rights (1981)

297

(10)

Hang Liwu

Part VII. The Late 1980s: Before and After Tiananmen

The Origin and Historical Development of Human Rights Theory (1989)

307

(12)

Xu Bing

Open Letter to Deng Xiaoping (1989)

319

(4)

Fang Lizhi

Declaration of Human Rights (May 1989)

Chinese Human Rights Movement Committee, Beijing

321

(2)

Who Are the True Defenders of Human Rights? (July 1989)

323

(10)

Shi Yun

Part VIII. The 1990s

Human Rights: Three Existential Forms (1991)

333

(10)

Li Buyun

Prison Letter (1991)

343

(24)

Wei Jingsheng

White Paper on Human Rights in China (1991)

Information Office of the State Council

355

(9)

Statement on the Issue of Human Rights in China (1991)

Liberal Democratic Party of China

364

(3)

Human Rights, Rights, and Collective Rights: An Answer to Comrade Lu Deshan (1992)

367

(5)

Zhang Wenxian

Human Rights and Chinese Tradition (1992)

372

(18)

Xia Yong

Vienna Conference Statement (1993)

390

(6)

Liu Huaqiu

Developing Countries and Human Rights (1994)

396

(13)

Liu Nanlai

What Are Asian Values? (1998)

409

(4)

Liu Junning

Declaration on Civil Rights and Freedoms (1998)

413

(10)

Ding Zilin

Lin Mu

Jiang Qisheng

Jiang Peikun

Wei Xiaotao

Freedom of Speech Is the Foremost Human Rights (1998)

423

(13)

Hu Ping

Moving in the Right Direction: China's Irreversible Progress Toward Democracy and Human Rights (1999)

436

(14)

Liu Qing

Taiwan Urgently Needs a National Human Rights Commission (2000)

League for the Promotion of a National Human Rights Commission

443

(7)

Address by President Chen Shuibian on the Occasion of Establishing the President's Advisory Group on Human Rights (2000)

450

(5)

Chen Shuibian

Glossary and Index

455

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The Chinese Human Rights Reader: Documents and Commentary, 1900-2000: Documents and Commentary, 1900-2000

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