Explaining China's continued resistance towards international human rights norms
Subtitle: a historical legal analysis
By: Srini Sitaraman
Series: ACDIS occasional paper; ACDIS occasional paper
Publisher: Program in Arms Control, Disarmament, and International Security, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Champaign, IL
Language: eng
Number of pages: 45
Subjects: Human rights; Civil rights; Politics and government
Notes: "June 2008."

Includes bibliographical references (p. 37-45).
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Notions of law and order in Imperial China : Confucianism and legalism: Individual rights in the Chinese legal tradition ; Legal codes of Imperial China : legalized Confucianism ; Imperial China, western powers, and international law : the Manchu period; title: Legal reforms : the republican and the nationalists eras; title: People's Republic of China : rule by man over rule by law: The concept of individual rights in revolutionary China ; Communist China and international law; title: Economic reform and China's participation in human rights conventions: Human rights and rule-of-law : international pressure linkages ; Saving face and cultural sensitivity to foreign criticism; title: Political order and human rights in post-revolutionary China: Reforms and social stability; title: strike-hard campaigns and the death penalty ; Arrest, arbitrary detention, and suppression of dissent ; Torture, ill-treatment, and coercive extraction of confessions ; Repression and control of religious activities; title: Conclusion; title: Notes.