Coping with a Bad Global Image: Human Rights in the People's Republic of China, 1993-1994
This book assesses the human rights condition in the People's Republic of China during 1993-94, focusing on how abuses have engendered difficulties for Bejing in international relations. It considers changes in the political and legal systems and Communist ideology (more correctly, its demise) in its appraisal. These, the authors contend, are causative factors of human rights abuses and need to be understood to put the human rights situation in its proper perspective. Such matters as crime,...
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This book assesses the human rights condition in the People's Republic of China during 1993-94, focusing on how abuses have engendered difficulties for Bejing in international relations. It considers changes in the political and legal systems and Communist ideology (more correctly, its demise) in its appraisal. These, the authors contend, are causative factors of human rights abuses and need to be understood to put the human rights situation in its proper perspective. Such matters as crime, forced labor, and executions are examined in detail to deliniate the worst kinds of human rights abuses as well as current trends. Dissidents, religious advocates, and intellectuals are also a focus of attention. Copublished with the East Asia Research Institute.Author Biography: Ta-ling Lee teaches in the Department of History at Southern Connecticut State University in New Haven, Connecticut. John F. Copper is Stanley J. Buckman Professor of International Studies at Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee.
PrefaceCh. 1IntroductionCh. 2Chinese Politics and Human RightsCh. 3Political Dissidents and Human RightsCh. 4Freedom of Speech and Human RightsCh. 5Criminal Justice and Human RightsCh. 6Foreign Policy and Human Rights, ICh. 7Foreign Policy and Human Rights, IICh. 8ConclusionsAppendixesBibliographyIndexAbout the Authors
