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Debating Human Rights in China: A Conceptual and Political History. By Marina Svensson. [Lanham, MD and Oxford: Rowman and Littlefield, 2002. 389 pp. $29.95. ISBN 0-7425-1697-0.] The Chinese Human Rights Reader. By Stephen C. Angle and Marina Svensson. [Armonk, NY and London: M. E. Sharpe, 2001. 476 pp. $29.95. ISBN 0-7656-0693-3.]
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 21 July 2003
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Talk of ‘Asian values’ seems to have abated. Those who promoted such ‘values’ in order to license disregard for international human rights standards touted the ‘logic’ that ‘anything originated in Western culture is only valid in countries of Western cultural heritage and should not be applied elsewhere; human rights originated in Western culture. Therefore, they should not be applied in Asia.’
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