Description
Book SynopsisLegal expert Sarah Biddulph uses case studies to examine the multiple and shifting ways in which the Chinese government’s efforts to maintain social and political stability impact on the legal definition and implementation of human rights in China.
Trade ReviewBiddulph has written an outstanding contribution to the field of human rights and law as well as to the field of governance and social stability/protests. The uniqueness and strength of the book lie in the author’s ability to bridge and unite insights from different research areas and in her rich empirical material. [Biddulph] shows how issues of human rights and governance are intertwined and shape the life of individual citizens as well as the work of different state and non-state actors and institutions.
-- Marina Svensson, Lund University * Pacific Historical Review *
Table of Contents1 Rights in a Time of Anxiety about Stability
2 Labour Rights and Stability
3 Housing Expropriation, Demolition, and Relocation
4 The Right to Medical Care and Causing Havoc in Hospitals (Yinao)
5 Punishing Protest
6 Abolishing Re-Education through Labour
7 Governance for Rights and Stability?
Appendix: Legislation, Administrative Regulations and Rules, Normative Documents, and Party Documents
Notes; References; Index
