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

ISBN-13: 9780765606921 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 350 str.

Stephen Angle; Marina Svensson

Opis

Representative selections from China's twentieth-century human rights discourse, rendered into fluid and non-technical English. The documents are arranged chronologically, and each is preceded by a brief introduction dealing with the author and the immediate context. The book also includes a glossary in which translations of key terms are linked to their Chinese equivalents.

Spis treści

Part I. Last Years of the Qing Dynasty: 1900-1911 Part II. The New Culture Movement, May Fourth, and the Twenties: 1914-1926, Part III. The Nanjing Decade: 1927-1937, Part IV. War with Japan and Civil War: 1937-1949 Part V.1949, Part VI. 1976-1986, Including the Democracy Wall Movement Part VII. The Late 1980s: Before and After Tiananmen Part VIII. The 1990s

O autorze

Stephen C. Angle is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Wesleyan University. Marina Svensson is Assistant Professor at the Department of East Asian Languages, Lund University.