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Negotiating Culture and Human Rights
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By tracing the relativist and universalist arguments of human rights through such issues as criminal justice, women's rights, and ethnicity, the contributors forge a new way of looking at this dichotomy. This new view is articulated as a sort of "chastened universalism," not as concerned with searching for pre-existing common values among different cultures, but for ways to create them.
Negotiating Culture and Human Rights provides a new interdisciplinary approach to issues of cultural values and universal human rights. Central to the discussion is the "Asian values debate," so named because of the culturally relativist ideals embraced by some key Asian governments. By analyzing how cultural difference and human rights operate in theory and practice in such areas as legal equality, women's rights, and ethnicity, the contributors forge a new way of looking at these critical issues. They call their approach "chastened universalism," arguing that respect for others' values need not lead to sterile, relativist views. Ultimately the authors conclude that it is less important to discover pre-existing common values across cultures than to create them through dialogue and debate
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Lynda Bell is associate professor of history at the University of California, Riverside. Andrew J. Nathan is professor of political science at Columbia University and author of China's Crisis and China's Transition (both by Columbia). Ilan Peleg is Charles A. Dana Professor of Goverment and Law at Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania.
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Acknowledgments
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Contributors
xi - Part 1. Human Rights and the Asian Values Debate
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Introduction: Culture and Human Rights
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1. Who Produces Asian Identity? Discourse, Discrimination, and Chinese Peasant Women in the Quest for Human Rights
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2. Getting Beyond Cross-Talk: Why Persisting Disagreements Are Philosophically Nonfatal
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3. Western Defensiveness and the Defense of Rights: A Communitarian Alternative
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4. Rights Hunting in Non-Western Traditions
96 - Part 3. Human Rights Law and Its Limits
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5. How a Liberal Jurist Defends the Bangkok Declaration
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6. Are Women Human? The Promise and Perils of “Women’s Rights as Human Rights”
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7. Repositioning Human Rights Discourse on “Asian” Perspectives
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8. Human Rights and the Discourse on Universality: A Chinese Historical Perspective
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9. Jihad Over Human Rights, Human Rights as Jihad: Clash of Universals
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10. Universalization of the Rejection of Human Rights: Russia’s Case
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11. Ethnicity and Human Rights in Contemporary Democracies: Israel and Other Cases
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12. Walking Two Roads: Reading Human Rights in Contemporary Chinese Fiction
334 - Part 5. Beyond Universalism and Relativism
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13. Universalism: A Particularistic Account
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14. Dedichotomizing Discourse: Three Gorges, Two Cultures, One Nature
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Appendix A: Universal Declaration on Human Rights
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Appendix B: Bangkok Declaration on Human Rights
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Appendix C: Bangkok NGO Declaration on Human Rights
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Appendix D: Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women
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Index
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