Asian Values and Human Rights Bibliography

Bibliography on Asian Values and Human Rights

Asian Values & Modernization, ed. Seah Chee-Meow
(Singapore University Press, 1977)

Asian values and modernization / W. M. Ho
Asian values and modernization: a sociological perspective / P. S. J. Chen
Parents and children in a modernizing society / A. Wee
Chinese traditional values and modernization / T. Wu
The written script and impact of modernization: The romanization of Chinese / Y. Chang
The captive mind and creative development / H. Syed Alatas
Asian values and modernization / S. Rajaratnam

Religious Diversity and Human Rights, ed. Irene Bloom, J. Paul Martin and Wayne L. Proudfoot
(NY: Columbia University Press, 1996)

Introduction / Irene Bloom
The Individual and the Community in the Normative Traditions of Judaism / Lenn E Goodman
Hindu Perspectives on the Individual and the Collectivity / Joseph W. Elder
Human Rights and Human Responsibilities: Buddhist Views on Individualism and Altruism / Robert A. F. Thurman
Confucian Perspectives on the Individual and the Collectivity / Irene Bloom
The Individual and the Collectivity in Christianity / John Langan
The Individual in Islamic Society / Richard W. Bulliet
Religion and Lockean Natural Rights / Richard Ashcraft
Christianity, Islam, and Religious Liberty / David Little, Abdulaziz Sachedina, John Kelsay
Hindu Nationalism and Human Rights / Mark Juergensmeyer
Catholicism and Human Rights in Latin America / Margaret E. Crahan
Russian Orthodoxy and Human Rights / Paul Valliere
Muslim Women Between Human Rights and Islamic Norms / Miriam Cooke, Bruce B. Lawrence

Confucian Traditions in East Asian Modernity: Moral Education and Economic Culture
in Japan and the Four Mini-Dragons, edited by Tu Wei-ming
(Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1996)

Confucian Education in Premodern East Asia / Wm. Theodore de Bary
Reflections on Civil Society and Civility in the Chinese Intellectual Tradition / Edward Shils
Confucian Ideals and the Real World: A Critical Review of Contemporary Neo-ConfucianThought / Liu Shu-hsien
The West as Seen through Confucian Eyes in Nineteenth-Century Japan / Watanabe Hiroshi
Confucianism and the Japanese State, 1904-1945 / Samuel Hideo Yamashita
The Japanese (Confucian) Family: The Tradition from the Bottom Up / Robert J. Smith
Confucianism in Contemporary Korea / Koh Byong-ik
State Confucianism and Its Transformation: The Restructuring of the State-Society Relation in Taiwan / Ambrose Y. C. King
Civil Society in Taiwan: The Confucian Dimension / Thomas B. Gold
The Transformation of Confucianism in the Post-Confucian Era: The Emergence of Rationalistic Traditionalism in Hong Kong / Ambrose Y. C. King
Promoting Confucianism for Socioeconomic Development: The Singapore Experience / John Wong
Confucianism as Political Discourse in Singapore: The Case of an Incomplete Revitalization Movement / Eddie C. Y. Kuo
Overseas Chinese Capitalism / Gary G. Hamilton

Confucianism and Human Rights, ed. Wm. Theodore de Bary and Tu Weiming
(New York : Columbia University Press, 1998)

A constructive framework for discussing Confucianism and human rights / Summer B. Twiss
Human rights : a bill of worries / Henry Rosemont Jr.
Human rights : a valid Chinese concept? / Julia Ching
On the rites and rights of being human / D.W.Y. Kwok
Mencius and human rights / Irene Bloom
The Confucian theory of norms and human rights / Wejen Chang
Transforming Confucian virtues into human rights / Chung-ying Cheng
The yellow emperor tradition as compared to Confucianism / Yu Feng
Rites and rights in Ming China / Ron Guey Chu
Confucianism and due process / Alison W. Conner
The concept of people's rights (Minquan) in the late Qing / Joan Judge
Citizenship and human rights in early twentieth century Chinese thought / Peter Zarrow
Confucian harmony and freedom of thought / Randall Peerenhoom
Confucian influence on intellectuals in the Peoples' Republic of China / Merle Goldman
Confucianism contested : human rights and the Chinese tradition in contemporary Chinese political discourse / Jeremy T. Paltiel
Epilogue : human rights as a Confucian moral discourse / Tu Weiming
Epilogue : Confucianism, human rights, and 'cultural relativism' / Louis Henkin

Asian Values and Human Rights: A Confucian Communitarian Perspective,
by Wm. Theodore de Bary (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1998)

"Asian Values" and Confucianism
Individualism and Personhood
Laws and Rites
School and Community
The Community Compact
Chinese Constitutionalism and Civil Society
Women's Education and Women's Rights
Chinese Communism and Confucian Communitarianism

Democracy in East Asia, ed. Larry Diamond and Marc F. Plattner
(Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998)

Why Asia Needs Democracy: A View from Hong Kong / Margaret Ng
Asian Values and Human Rights: An Alternative View / Joseph Chan
Confucianism and Human Rights in China / Wm. Theodore de Bary
The Fall and Rise of Democracy in East Asia / Minxin Pei
Japan's Democratic Experience / Makoto Iokibe
Soft Authoritarianism in Malaysia and Singapore / Gordon P. Means
Korea's Crisis of Success / Byung-Kook Kim
Taiwan's Unique Challenges / Yun-han Chu
Beyond Transition in Thailand / Chai-Anan Samudavanija, Parichart Chotiya
China's Prospects for Change / Tatsumi Okabe
Vietnam's Tentative Transformation / Frederick Z. Brown
Indonesia: Suharto's Tightening Grip / R. William Liddle
A "Recipe" for Democratic Development / Gerald L. Curtis
The Illusion of "Asian Exceptionalism," / Francis Fukuyama
A Tale of Three Systems / Robert A. Scalapino

The East Asian Challenge for Human Rights, ed. Joanne R. Bauer, Daniel A. Bell
(Cambridge University Press, 1999)

Introduction / Joanne R. Bauer, Daniel A.
Pt. I Critical Perspectives on the "Asian Values" Debate
Liberal Democracy and Asian Orientalism / Inoue Tatsuo
Human Rights and Asian Values: A Defense of "Western" Universalism / Jack Donnelly
Human Rights and Economic Achievements / Amartya Sen
Pt. II Toward a More Inclusive Human Rights Regime
Toward an Intercivilizational Approach to Human Rights / Onuma Yasuaki
Conditions of an Unforced Consensus on Human Rights / Charles Taylor
Pt. III Culture and Human Rights
The Cultural Mediation of Human Rights: The Al-Arqam Case in Malaysia / Abdullahi A. An-Na'im
Grounding Human Rights Arguments in Non-Western Culture: Shari'a and the Citizenship Rights of Women in a Modern Islamic State / Norani Othman
Looking to Buddhism to Turn Back Prostitution in Thailand / Sewanna Satha-Anand
A Confucian Perspective on Human Rights for Contemporary China / Joseph Chan
Pt. IV Economic Development and Human Rights
Rights, Social Justice, and Globalization in East Asia / Yash Ghai
Economic Development, Legal Reform, and Rights in Singapore and Taiwan / Kevin Y. L. Tan
Human Rights Issues in China's Internal Migration: Insights from Comparisons with Germany and Japan / Dorothy J. Solinger
The Anti-Nuclear Power Movement in Taiwan: Claiming the Right to a Clean Environment / Mab Huang
The Applicability of the International Legal Concept of "Indigenous Peoples" in Asia / Benedict Kingsbury

Human Rights and Asian Values: Contesting National Identities and Cultural Representations in Asia, ed. Michael Jacobsen and Ole Bruun (Curzon, 2000)

Introduction (Ole Bruun and Michael Jacobsen)
Since There Is No East and There Is No West, How Could Either Be the Best? (Edward Friedman)
Universal Rights and Particular Cultures (Michael Freeman)
Thick and Thin Accounts of Human Rights (Joseph Chan)
Once Again, The Asian Values Debate (Maria Serena I. Diokno)
Human Rights and Asian Values in Vietnam (Vo Van Ai)
Particularism, Identities and a Clash of Universalisms (Jon O. Halldorsson)
Modernization without Westernization (Hugo Stokke)
Human Rights in Vietnam (Tine Gammeltoft and Rolf Hernø)
Freedom as an Asian Value (David Kelly)
The Chinese Debate on Asian Values and Human Rights (Marina Svensson)
Universal Human Rights and Chinese Liberalism (Mab Huang)

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