The East Asian challenge for human rights

Abstract

Preface Part I: 1. Introduction Part II. Critical Perspectives on the 'Asian Values' Debate: 2. A post-Orientalist defense of liberal democracy for Asia Tatsuo Inoue 3. Human rights and Asian values Jack Donnelly 4. Human rights and economic achievements Amartya Sen Part III. Toward a More Inclusive International Regime: 5. Towards an intercivilizational approach to human rights Yasuaki Onuma 6. Conditions of an unforced consensus on human rights Charles Taylor Part IV. Culture and Human Rights: 7. The cultural mediation of human rights: the Al-Arqam case in Malaysia Abdullahi An-Na'im 8. Grounding human rights Arguments in Non-Western Culture: Shari'a and the citizenship rights of women in a modern Islamic nation-state Norani Othman 9. Looking to Buddhism to turn back Thai prostitution in Southeast Asia Suwanna Satha-Anand 10. A Confucian perspective on human rights Joseph Chan Part V. Economic Development and Human Rights: 11. Rights, social justice and globalization in East Asia Yash Ghai 12. Economic development, legal reform, and rights in Singapore and Taiwan Kevin Y. L. Tan 13. Human rights issues in China's internal migration: insights from comparisons with Germany and Japan Dorothy Solinger 14. The anti-nuclear-power movement and the rise of rights consciousness in Taiwan Mab Huang 15. The applicability of the international legal concept of 'Indigenous Peoples' in Asia Benedict Kingsbury Notes Tables.