Human Rights and Asian Values

• Introduction 1 Since There Is No East and There Is No West, How Could Either Be the Best? 2 Universal Rights and Particular Cultures 3 Thick and Thin Accounts of Human Rights 4 Once Again, The Asian Values Debate 5 Human Rights and Asian Values in Vietnam 6 Particularism, Identities and a Clash of Universalisms 7 Modernization without Westernization? 8 Human Rights in Vietnam 9 Freedom as an Asian Value 10 The Chinese Debate on Asian Values and Human Rights 11 Universal Human Rights and Chinese Liberalism 12 Practice to Theory 13 Human Rights Education in Asia 14 The Rights of Foreign Migrant Workers in Asia

'The book presents interesting new perspectives on the human rights questions, first and foremost by bringing the discussion down to the participants in Asian societies and focusing on how these so-called coherent values are developed and defined locally.' - Journal of Peace Research'All essays in the volume are of good quality ... this volume of essays makes a significant contribution to the urgent and continuing effort to articulate and defend the universal principles of human rights.' - Asian Journal of Political Science' ... the observation by someof these authors that an examination of Asian values leads us to understand ourselves better should now be taken very seriously ... this book offers a timely reminder that pride goes before a fall. It makes essential reading.' - Australian Journal of International Affairs Vol. 57:1