Asian Values

Author : William Theodore De Bary,Wm. Theodore de Bary
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2000-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674001961

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Asian Values and Human Rights by William Theodore De Bary,Wm. Theodore de Bary Pdf

Since the horrific Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989, the debate on human rights in China has raged on with increasing volume and shifting context, but little real progress. In this provocative book, one of our most learned scholars of China moves beyond the political shouting match, informing and contextualizing this debate from a Confucian and a historical perspective. "Asian Values" is a concept advanced by some authoritarian regimes to differentiate an Asian model of development, supposedly based on Confucianism, from a Western model identified with individualism, liberal democracy, and human rights. Highlighting the philosophical development of Confucianism as well as the Chinese historical experience with community organization, constitutionalism, education, and women's rights, Wm. Theodore de Bary argues that while the Confucian sense of personhood differs in some respects from Western libertarian concepts of the individual, it is not incompatible with human rights, but could, rather, enhance them. De Bary also demonstrates that Confucian communitarianism has historically resisted state domination, and that human rights in China could be furthered by a genuine Confucian communitarianism that incorporates elements of Western civil society. With clarity and elegance, Asian Values and Human Rights broadens our perspective on the Chinese human rights debate.

Author : Josiane Cauquelin,Paul Lim,Birgit Mayer-König
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2014-01-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136841255

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Asian Values by Josiane Cauquelin,Paul Lim,Birgit Mayer-König Pdf

This book opens with an examination of values themselves, grappling with western assertions of individual human rights and the eastern emphasis on duties, and analysing selected Asian philosophical and religious traditions. Several case studies follow, on countries the Philippines, Japan, China, Malaysia and Thailand. The purpose of the book is to help westerners in particular to understand and appreciate better the changes taking place in Asia, to handle relations more sensitively, and thereby to help bring Europe and Asia together.

Author : Michael D. Barr
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2012-11-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781136001666

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Cultural Politics and Asian Values by Michael D. Barr Pdf

Cultural Politics and Asian Values looks at the political, cultural and religious background of East and Southeast Asian societies and those of 'the West', with a view to seeing how they are affecting contemporary national and international politics: democratization, the international human rights discourse, NGOs and globalization. The book surveys the political history and pre-history of the 'Asian values' debate, taking it up to the era of Megawati Sukarnoputri, Chen Shui-bian and Kim Dae-jung. In chapters on Confucianism, Buddhism, Islam, Christianity and liberalism, Barr explores the histories and conceptual essences of the world religions involved in or affected by the debate.

Author : Ole Bruun,Michael Jacobsen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781135796266

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Human Rights and Asian Values by Ole Bruun,Michael Jacobsen Pdf

The Asian challenge to the universality of human rights has sparked off intense debate. This volume takes a clear stand for universal rights, both theoretically and empirically, by analysing social and political processes in a number of East and Southeast Asian countries. On the national arenas, Asian values are linked to the struggle between authoritarian and democratic forces, which both tend to convey stereotyped images of the 'west', but with reversed meanings.

Author : Anthony J. Langlois
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2001-10-15
Category : Law
ISBN : 0521003474

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The Asian Values Discourse

Author : Chee Meow Seah
Publisher : Ohio University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Social Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105039117697

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Asian Values & Modernization by Chee Meow Seah Pdf

Author : Roda Mushkat
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0774810572

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International Environmental Law and Asian Values by Roda Mushkat Pdf

Following decades of vigorous economic expansion, Asia is confronting the environmental consequences of unfettered development. This poses a challenge because of the strong bias of prevailing cultural systems in the region toward the goal of lifting standards of living over achieving ecological sustainability. This book juxtaposes international environmental norms and practices with relevant Asian policies and their applications in key areas. Roda Mushkat examines the fundamental principle of public participation in environmental law-making, as well as the "rights approach," against the emergence of democratic and human rights norms in the region. The complex relationship between trade and the environment is also discussed in light of the strong regional emphasis on economic growth, trade liberalization, and the aversion to conditionalities. Given regionalization processes in Asia-Pacific and elsewhere, this work seeks to establish to what extent such processes have led to the regionalization of international environmental law. International Environmental Law and Asian Values concludes that, although some gaps can be identified between international imperatives and regional responses, "Asian values" have not proved to be an insurmountable barrier to the spread of international environmental legal ideas. On the whole, the region is responding to impulses emanating from the global arena rather than resisting them consciously. The analysis and conclusions of this comprehensive and original work will be of considerable interest to scholars of international law and relations, environmental policy, comparative culture, economic development, and social change.

Author : Ole Bruun,Michael Jacobsen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781135796273

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Human Rights and Asian Values by Ole Bruun,Michael Jacobsen Pdf

The Asian challenge to the universality of human rights has sparked off intense debate. This volume takes a clear stand for universal rights, both theoretically and empirically, by analysing social and political processes in a number of East and Southeast Asian countries. On the national arenas, Asian values are linked to the struggle between authoritarian and democratic forces, which both tend to convey stereotyped images of the 'west', but with reversed meanings.

Author : Greg Sheridan
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1999-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781741764628

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Asian Values, Western Dreams by Greg Sheridan Pdf

Asian Values, Western Dreams provides a provocative examination of the cultural relationship between Asia and the West. It asks a simple question: how do Asian societies maintain their cultural uniqueness in the face of Western cultural, economic and military power, in the face of globalisation? In the wake of the regional economic crisis, Sheridan examines lives and societies in stress and transition. He draws on hundreds of interviews across Asia and the United States, from Presidents and Prime Ministers to beggars and housewives, from civil servants and traders to politicians and prostitutes. He challenges popular interpretations from Western gurus such as Sam Huntington, Francis Fukuyama and former Hong Kong governor, Chris Patten. Instead Sheridan chases Asian Values down the houtungs (lane ways) of Beijing and across the kampungs of Malaysia, into the old colonial cities of India and out to the smallest village in the Philippines countryside. He draws on a wide range of scholarship and twenty years experience working in the region to offer an ambitious, region-wide interpretation of the Asian Values debate. A mixture of travel writing and cultural and political analysis, Asian Values, Western Dreams offers insights into relations between Asian nations, as well as between Asia and the West. Whether for the executive or student, the Western traveller or the Asian reader interested in learning about their neighbours, Asian Values, Western Dreams is an indispensable guide to the new Asia.

Author : D. Kingsbury,Leena Avonius
Publisher : Springer
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2008-09-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230615496

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Human Rights in Asia by D. Kingsbury,Leena Avonius Pdf

This book offers a critical reassessment of the 'Asian values' debate, which dominated the human rights discourse in the late 1990s, and a reappraisal of the human rights situation in Asia since then. The chapters in this book contextualize the debate and examine in what ways the issues raised then continue to trouble Asian societies.

Author : William Theodore De Bary,Wm. Theodore de Bary
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 0674049551

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Asian Values and Human Rights by William Theodore De Bary,Wm. Theodore de Bary Pdf

De Bray also demonstrates that Confucian communitarianism has historically resisted state domination, and that human rights in China could be furthered by a genuine Confucian communitarianism that incorporates elements of Western civil society.

Author : Josiane Cauquelin,Paul Lim,Birgit Mayer-König
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2014-01-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136841323

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Asian Values by Josiane Cauquelin,Paul Lim,Birgit Mayer-König Pdf

This book opens with an examination of values themselves, grappling with western assertions of individual human rights and the eastern emphasis on duties, and analysing selected Asian philosophical and religious traditions. Several case studies follow, on countries the Philippines, Japan, China, Malaysia and Thailand. The purpose of the book is to help westerners in particular to understand and appreciate better the changes taking place in Asia, to handle relations more sensitively, and thereby to help bring Europe and Asia together.

Author : Michael D. Barr
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2012-11-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781136001581

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Cultural Politics and Asian Values by Michael D. Barr Pdf

Cultural Politics and Asian Values looks at the political, cultural and religious background of East and Southeast Asian societies and those of 'the West', with a view to seeing how they are affecting contemporary national and international politics: democratization, the international human rights discourse, NGOs and globalization. The book surveys the political history and pre-history of the 'Asian values' debate, taking it up to the era of Megawati Sukarnoputri, Chen Shui-bian and Kim Dae-jung. In chapters on Confucianism, Buddhism, Islam, Christianity and liberalism, Barr explores the histories and conceptual essences of the world religions involved in or affected by the debate.

Author : Bob Beatty
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2003-08-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780313051609

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Democracy, Asian Values, and Hong Kong by Bob Beatty Pdf

On July 1, 1997, China took control over Hong Kong, where Britain had begun a process of introducing democracy. Beatty examines the process of democratization in Hong Kong, with the argument that democratic development will continue, despite being under Chinese rule. Through a series of 128 interviews with 89 Hong Kong elites from 1997-2002, including legislators and party leaders as well as participant and direct observation of 15 campaigns for the Legislative Council in 1998, Beatty analyzed political leaders beliefs and commitment towards democratic development and institutions and put them into the context of the post-handover environment. Evidence from the interviews is used to test the proposition that adherence to Asian values undermines democracy and Beatty probed Hong Kong elites about their beliefs regarding the rule of law, freedom of the press, civil liberties, and the possible trade-offs between economic development and democratization. A major finding from the in-depth interviews is that while Hong Kong political elites reject the Sinapore model and the Asian Values argument, many do believe in trade-offs between economic development and democratization. Beatty also offers sharp insight into the thinking of Hong Kong political elites and transcends the particular politics of Hong Kong and delves in the broader subject of elite beliefs and attitudes. An important analysis for scholars, students, and other researchers involved with China, Hong Kong, Asian politics and political values, and political development in general.

Author : David I. Hitchcock
Publisher : Center for Strategic & International Studies
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015034867476

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Asian Values and the United States by David I. Hitchcock Pdf