1st Edition

Human Rights In The People's Republic Of China

By Yuan-li Wu Copyright 1988
    344 Pages
    by Routledge

    344 Pages
    by Routledge

    This book examines the effects that political institutions, the legal system, and economic policies have had on the human rights record in the People's Republic of China since 1949. It offers both students and casual readers of Chinese affairs a source of reference on the human condition in China.

    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

    Biography

    Wu, Yuan-li