The Chinese Human Rights Reader: Documents and Commentary, 1900-2000: Documents and Commentary, 1900-2000

by Angle,Stephen C.

• ISBN13: 9780765606938
• ISBN10: 0765606933
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2001-07-31
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Includes translations of sixty selections from China's twentieth-century human rights discourse, along with commentary on the context. A glossary links translations of key terms to their Chinese equivalents.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	xi
General Introduction	xiii
Notes on Further Readings and Selected General Bibliography	xxxi
Alternative Thematic Table of Contents	xxxiii
Romanization, Pronunciation, and Abbreviations	xli
Permissions	xliii
Part I. Last Years of the Qing Dynasty: 1900-1911
On Citizens (1901) Anonymous	3	(2)
On Rights Consciousness (1902)	5	(10)
Liang Qichao
On Rights (1903) Anonymous	15	(9)
The People's Legal Right to Freedom (1903)	24	(5)
Zhinazi Pseudonym
The Revolutionary Army (1903)	29	(8)
Zou Rong
Textbook on Ethics (1905)	37	(5)
Liu Shipei
First Speech of Miss Xu Yucheng from Jinkui to the Women's World (1907)	42	(7)
Xu Yucheng
If the Citizens Want to Rid Themselves of the Evils of Autocracy, They Must Have Political Power (1908)	49	(8)
Ma Weilong
Part II. The New Culture Movement, May Fourth, and the Twenties: 1914-1926
Self-Awareness (1914)	57	(5)
Zhang Shizhao
The French and Modern Civilization (1915)	62	(5)
Chen Duxiu
The Constitution and Confucianism (1916)	67	(9)
Chen Duxiu
The Constitution and Freedom of Thought (1916)	76	(5)
Li Dazhao
The State Is Not the Final End of Life (1915)	81	(7)
Gao Yihan
Manifesto of the Struggle for Freedom (1920)	88	(4)
Hu Shi
Jiang Menglin
Tao Menghe
Wang Zheng
Zhang Weici
Li Dazhao
Gao Yihan
The Spirit of Contemporary Democracy (1920)	92	(7)
Tan Mingqian
The Question of People's Rights in the Provincial Constitutions (1921)	99	(2)
Gao Yihan
Eastern and Western Cultures and Their Philosophies (1921)	101	(13)
Liang Shuming
The Principle of People's Power (1924)	114	(5)
Sun Yatsen
Foreword to Renquan Magazine (1925) Anonymous	119	(8)
Part III. The Nanjing Decade: 1927-1937
The Basis and Particulars of the Principle of People's Rights (1928)	127	(3)
Zhou Fohai
Human Rights and the Provisional Constitution (1929)	130	(8)
Hu Shi
On Human Rights (1929)	138	(14)
Luo Longji
The New Culture Movement and the Human Rights Movement (1931)	152	(9)
Peng Kang
Two Excerpts (1933 and 1936)	161	(4)
Wu Jingxiong
A Discussion of Constitutional Stipulations Concerning the People's Rights (1933)	165	(11)
Qiu Hanping
Manifestos of the China League for the Protection of Civil Rights (1932 and 1933)
China League for the Protection of Civil Rights	172	(4)
The Protection of Civil Rights (1933)	176	(11)
Hu Shi
Part IV. War with Japan and Civil War: 1937-1949
The Human Rights Protection Regulations of Shandong Province (1940)
Provincial Council of Shandong Province	185	(2)
On Policy (1940)	187	(5)
Mao Zedong
The Program of the Human Rights Movement (1941)	192	(5)
Zhou Jingwen
Human Rights Are the Basis of Constitutionalism (1946)	197	(4)
Zhang Junmai
Proclamation on the Current State of Political Affairs (1947) China Democratic League	201	(5)
Chinese Statements During Deliberations on the UDHR (1948)	206	(11)
P.C. Chang
Part V. 1949-1975
Rightist Statements (1957)	217	(5)
Pu Zhongwen
He Shifen
Feng Guojiang
A Discussion of ``Human Dignity'' (1957)	222	(7)
Zuo Ai
Do You Want to Be a Human Being? (1958)	229	(10)
Yin Haiguang
A Criticism of the Views of Bourgeois International Law on the Question of Population (1960)	239	(8)
Qian Si
Part VI. 1976-1986, Including the Democracy Wall Movement
An Initial Inquiry into the Contemporary Theory of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (1976)	247	(6)
Mab Huang
Human Rights, Equality, and Democracy (1979)	253	(9)
Wei Jingsheng
A Chinese Declaration of Human Rights: Nineteen Points (1979) China Human Rights League	262	(5)
Problems in Chinese Society: Questions and Answers (1979)	267	(6)
Yu Fan
A Rebuttal to the Critique of ``Human Rights'' (1979)	273	(8)
Du Guo
How Marxism Views the Human Rights Question (1979)	281	(7)
Xiao Weiyun
Luo Haocai
Wu Xieying
Is ``Human Rights'' Always a Bourgeois Slogan? A Discussion with Comrade Xiao Weiyun and Others (1979)	288	(9)
Lan Ying
Human Relationships, People's Rights, and Human Rights (1981)	297	(10)
Hang Liwu
Part VII. The Late 1980s: Before and After Tiananmen
The Origin and Historical Development of Human Rights Theory (1989)	307	(12)
Xu Bing
Open Letter to Deng Xiaoping (1989)	319	(4)
Fang Lizhi
Declaration of Human Rights (May 1989)
Chinese Human Rights Movement Committee, Beijing	321	(2)
Who Are the True Defenders of Human Rights? (July 1989)	323	(10)
Shi Yun
Part VIII. The 1990s
Human Rights: Three Existential Forms (1991)	333	(10)
Li Buyun
Prison Letter (1991)	343	(24)
Wei Jingsheng
White Paper on Human Rights in China (1991)
Information Office of the State Council	355	(9)
Statement on the Issue of Human Rights in China (1991)
Liberal Democratic Party of China	364	(3)
Human Rights, Rights, and Collective Rights: An Answer to Comrade Lu Deshan (1992)	367	(5)
Zhang Wenxian
Human Rights and Chinese Tradition (1992)	372	(18)
Xia Yong
Vienna Conference Statement (1993)	390	(6)
Liu Huaqiu
Developing Countries and Human Rights (1994)	396	(13)
Liu Nanlai
What Are Asian Values? (1998)	409	(4)
Liu Junning
Declaration on Civil Rights and Freedoms (1998)	413	(10)
Ding Zilin
Lin Mu
Jiang Qisheng
Jiang Peikun
Wei Xiaotao
Freedom of Speech Is the Foremost Human Rights (1998)	423	(13)
Hu Ping
Moving in the Right Direction: China's Irreversible Progress Toward Democracy and Human Rights (1999)	436	(14)
Liu Qing
Taiwan Urgently Needs a National Human Rights Commission (2000)
League for the Promotion of a National Human Rights Commission	443	(7)
Address by President Chen Shuibian on the Occasion of Establishing the President's Advisory Group on Human Rights (2000)	450	(5)
Chen Shuibian
Glossary and Index	455