The politics of human rights in East Asia / Kenneth Christie and Denny Roy.

By:

Christie, Kenneth

Contributor(s):

Roy, Denny, 1960-

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: London ; Sterling, Va. : Pluto Press, 2001.Description: 1 online resource (viii, 307 pages)Content type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9781849640510
1849640513
1281733121
9781281733122
0745314198
9780745314198

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Politics of human rights in East Asia.DDC classification:

323/.095 21

LOC classification:

JC599.E18 C48 2001eb

Other classification:

86.81

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Contents:

Introduction: Human Rights in East Asia -- Southeast Asia / Kenneth Christie -- Malaysia, Singapore and ASEAN -- Myanmar and Vietnam -- Indonesia -- Thailand and the Philippines -- Cambodia -- Northeast Asia / Denny Roy -- China -- North and South Korea -- Japan.

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Summary: Refugees fleeing East Timor. Tiananmen Square in China. The killing fields in Cambodia. Freedom of speech in Singapore. The subject of human rights in Asia is a hotly debated one. In The Politics of Human Rights in East Asia, the authors survey the human rights records and attitudes of each country. The countries covered are: China, Taiwan, Korea, Japan, Indonesia, Myanmar, Cambodia, Vietnam, Thailand, the Philippines, Malaysia and Singapore. Kenneth Christie covers Southeast Asia and Denny Roy covers Northeast Asia. They conclude with a discussion of the Association of East Asian Nation's (ASEAN) role and suggestions for the future. Throughout, they examine the competing meaning of human rights in the Western versus the non-Western context and place the role of human rights within the framework of each country's history and political and economic development.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-302) and index.

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Refugees fleeing East Timor. Tiananmen Square in China. The killing fields in Cambodia. Freedom of speech in Singapore. The subject of human rights in Asia is a hotly debated one. In The Politics of Human Rights in East Asia, the authors survey the human rights records and attitudes of each country. The countries covered are: China, Taiwan, Korea, Japan, Indonesia, Myanmar, Cambodia, Vietnam, Thailand, the Philippines, Malaysia and Singapore. Kenneth Christie covers Southeast Asia and Denny Roy covers Northeast Asia. They conclude with a discussion of the Association of East Asian Nation's (ASEAN) role and suggestions for the future. Throughout, they examine the competing meaning of human rights in the Western versus the non-Western context and place the role of human rights within the framework of each country's history and political and economic development.

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