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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Christie, Kenneth.

Contributor:

Roy, Denny, 1960-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human rights--East Asia.

Human rights.

Human rights--Southeast Asia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (320 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; Sterling, Va. : Pluto Press, 2001.

Language Note:

English

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.

Contents:

pt. 1. Southeast Asia

pt. 2. Northeast Asia.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

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

ISBN:

9786611733124

9781849640510

1849640513

9781281733122

1281733121

9780585433752

0585433755

OCLC:

51066840