China modernizes:threat to the West or model for the rest?
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Oxford University Press,
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Publisher Address: | Oxford New York |
Publication Dates: | 2007. |
Literature type: | Book |
Language: | English |
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Carrier Form: | xv, 406 p.: ill. ; 24 cm. |
ISBN: |
0199208344 9780199208340 |
Index Number: | D6 |
CLC: | D6 |
Call Number: | D6/P375 |
Contents: |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [298]-393) and index. Introduction : two opposing views of China -- Déjà vu all over again : China and the East Asian Model -- Taking rights seriously? : official policy and actual practice -- Social and economic rights, law and order, women's rights, and cultural rights -- Of rights and wrongs : why China is subject to a double standard on rights -- Institutional reform : rule of law and good governance -- Debating democracy -- What if China democratizes? What if it doesn't? -- Conclusion : modernity with modesty, the strengths and limits of the EAM. |