1st Edition

Human Rights In Post-mao China

By John F Copper Copyright 1985
    130 Pages
    by Routledge

    130 Pages
    by Routledge

    This book investigates human rights in China since the death of Mao in 1976. It analyzes legal practices and institutions, intellectual and ideological policies, and economic changes to evaluate the degree to which there have been real changes in the Chinese attitude toward human rights.

    1. Introduction 2. Humanist Ethics in Chinese History 3. Human Rights in the Polity of the People's Republic of China 4. The Legal Dimension 5. Human Rights and Economic Realities 6. Control of the Mind 7. Summing Up

    Biography

    John F. Copper is Stanley J. Buckman Professor of International Studies at Rhodes College. He is the editor of Communist Nations' Military Assistance (Westview, 1983). Stanley J. Buckman Professor of International Studies at Rhodes College. He is the editor of Communist Nations' Military Assistance (Westview, 1983). Yuan-li Wu is a professor of economics at the University of San Francisco and a consultant at the Hoover Institution.