Description
Book SynopsisExporting Virtue? critically explores the ways in which China is attempting to change international human rights standards to accommodate its interests.
Trade ReviewExporting Virtue is a meticulously researched and forcefully argued indictment of faux human rights activism that "seems mainly to be an exercise in justifying authoritarianism, virtue claims notwithstanding."
-- Scott Costen * The Sidebar *
This book is a sound corrective to the often-heard but untenable claims by communist dictators in general that economic, social and cultural rights have precedence over civil and political ones. -- Alex Dessein, King's College London * Europe-Asia Studies Journal *
Table of ContentsIntroduction
1 Human Rights in China Past and Present: From Confucian Governance to Regime-led Development
2 China’s Challenge to International Human Rights Standards: From Qualified Acceptance to Active Revision
3 Case Study: Controlling Political Expression
4 China’s International Economic Relations: Coordination with Human Rights Orthodoxy
5 Case Studies: Coordinating Human Rights and Trade Policy in Labour Relations and Environmental Protection
Conclusion
Notes; Authorities Cited; Index
