Ann Kent, Australian Research Council fellow in the Law Program at Australian National University, is the author of Between Freedom and Subsistence: China and Human Rights.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction The UN Human Rights Regime and China's Participation Before China, the UN Commission on Human Rights, and the UN Sub-Commission on Human Rights China and Torture: Treaty Bodies and Special Rapporteurs China and the UN Specialized Agencies: The International Labor Organization Theory, Policy, and Diplomacy before Vienna The UN World Human Rights Conference at Vienna After Vienna: China's Implementation of Human Rights Conclusion Notes Index

"An ambitious and impressive undertaking that makes a significant contribution to the understanding of how international regimes function and how China interacts with the international order."-R. Randle Edwards, Columbia University"Impressive. . . . Rarely does one encounter such fine, readable scholarship on such a timely, complex issue."-Choice"Kent combines primary and secondary research into a detailed case study that tells us important things about both China's relations with the external world and the strengths and limits of contemporary multilateral human rights institutions."-Jack Donnelly, University of Denver"Ann Kent's China, the United Nations, and Human Rights is remarkable in that it provides both an in-depth analysis of China's human rights policy and its interaction with the various United Nations organs concerned with human rights, and an assessment of the UN human rights regime's success. . . . For all these reasons, and because it is so well written and researched, Ann Kent's new book is a much-welcomed, much-needed addition to the study of human rights and China."-Global Justice