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Human rights in Asia : a reassessment of the Asian values debate
Author: Damien Kingsbury; Leena Avonius
Publisher: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
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"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. In this book Asian and non-Asian scholars contextualize the 'Asian values' debate and examine in what ways the issues raised then continue to trouble Asian societies. Human rights are seen both in the context of political developments in individual Asian countries as well as in relation to global issues such as the Global War on Terror. The book challenges the reader to critically examine human rights rhetoric and practice both in Asia and globally."--

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Asian values and human rights : a Confucian communitarian perspective
Author: William Theodore De Bary
Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1998.
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"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.

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Human rights and Asian values : contesting national identities and cultural representations in Asia
Author: Ole Bruun; Michael Jacobsen
Publisher: Richmond : Curzon, 2000.
Series: Democracy in Asia series, no. 6.
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Cultural politics and Asian values : the tepid war
Author: Michael D Barr
Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge, 2003.
Series: Routledge advances in Asia-Pacific studies, 6.
Edition/Format: eBook : Document : English

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The East Asian challenge for human rights
Author: Joanne R Bauer; Daniel Bell
Publisher: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1999.
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"The "Asian values" argument within the international human rights debate holds that not all Asian states can be or should be expected to protect human rights to the same degree due to varying levels of economic, political, and legal development and to differing cultural views on the virtues and necessity of freedom. This position of "cultural relativism," often used by authoritarian governments in Asia to counter charges of human rights violations, has been dismissed by many Western and Asian human rights advocates as a weak excuse. The East Asian Challenge for Human Rights moves beyond the politicized rhetoric that has dogged this debate to identify the more persuasive contributions by East Asian intellectuals to the evolving international debate on human rights." "The editors of this book argue that critical intellectuals in East Asia have begun to chart a middle ground between the extreme, uncompromising ends of this argument."--BOOK JACKET. Read less

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Title: Self-expression, Asian values, and democracy: East Asia in global perspective
By: Wang, Zhengxu; Tan, Ern-Ser
Year: 2006
In: Dalton, Russell J.; Shin, Doh Chull, eds. Citizens, democracy, and
markets around the Pacific Rim: congruence theory and political
culture. Oxford, England; New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. xx,
312p. (Comparative politics)
Pages: 50-72
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Culture matters : how values shape human progress
Author: Samuel P Huntington; Lawrence E Harrison
Publisher: New York : Basic Books, ©2000.
Edition/Format: Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"Prominent scholars and journalists ponder the question of why, at the beginning of the twenty-first century, the world is more divided than ever between the rich and the poor, between those living in freedom and those under oppression." http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0832/00022951-d.html.

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Striking a balance : a primer in traditional Asian values
Author: Michael C Brannigan
Publisher: Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, ©2010.
Edition/Format: Book : English : Rev. edView all editions and formats
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An introduction to Asian ethics, drawing from classical and contemporary Asian literature to demonstrate the major ethical teachings of Hinduism, Buddhism, Zen Buddhism, Taoism, and Confucianism.

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Values and development : appraising Asian experience
Author: Harold D Lasswell; Daniel Lerner; John D Montgomery; Southeast Asia Development Advisory Group.
Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©1976.
Series: M.I.T. studies in comparative politics series.
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China's cultural values
Author: Benjamin I Schwartz
Publisher: Mesa, Ariz : Lionheart Press, 1995.
Series: Occasional paper / Arizona State University. Center for Asian Studies, 18
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The Asian values debate
Author: Mahathir bin Mohamad; Institute of Strategic and International Studies (Malaysia)
Publisher: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia : Institute of Strategic and International Studies, ©1997.
Series: Perdana papers.
Edition/Format: Book : English



Understanding Asian values
Publisher: Brussels : European Institute for Asian Studies, 1996.
Series: EIAS occasional papers, [1].
Edition/Format: Book : English