557
Views
1
CrossRef citations to date
0
Altmetric
Articles

Human Rights in China: A Social-Constructive Theological Approach

References

  • Angle, Stephen. Human Rights and Chinese Thought: A Cross-Cultural Inquiry. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002.
  • Biddulph, Sarah. The Stability Imperative: Human Rights and Law in China. Vancouver; Toronto: UBC Press, 2015.
  • Chan, Joseph C.W. “Confucianism and Human Rights.” In Religion and Human Rights: An Introduction, edited by John Witte, and M. Christian Green, 87–102. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2012.
  • Chang, P. C. “Chinese Statements During Deliberations on the UDHR(1948).” In Chinese Human Rights Reader: Documents and Commentary 1900-2000, edited by Stephen C. Angle, and Marian Svensson, 206–213. Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, 2001.
  • Chow, Alexander. “Calvinist Public Theology in Urban China Today.” International Journal of Public Theology 8, no. 2 (2014): 158–175. doi: 10.1163/15697320-12341340
  • Christensen, David E. “Breaking the Deadlock: Toward a Socialist-Confucianist Concept of Human Rights for China.” 13 Mich. J. Int’l L. 469 (1992): 469–514.
  • Gao, Shining. “Three Issues in Contemporary Chinese Religions.” Logos & Pneuma: Chinese Journal of Theology 36 (2012, Spring): 17–35.
  • Gregg, Benjamin. Human Rights as Social Construction. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012.
  • Grenz, Stanley J. The Social God and the Relational Self: A Trinitarian Theology of the Imago Dei. Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 2001.
  • Henkin, Louis. “Confucianism, Human Rights, and ‘Cultural Relativism.’” In Confucianism and Human Rights, edited by Wm. Theodore de Bary, and Tu Weiming, 308–314. New York: Columbia University Press, 1998.
  • Henkin, Louis. “The Human Rights Idea in China.” In Human Rights in Contemporary China, edited by R. Randle Edwards, Louis Henkin, and Andrew J. Nathan, 7–39. New York: Columbia University Press, 1986.
  • Huang, Haibo. “Towards Civil Society Under Construction: A Reflection on Responsibility of Christianity in China in 2010.” In Blue Book of Religion: A Report on Religions in China (2011), edited by Jin Ze, and Qiu Yonghui, 128–172. Beijing: Social Sciences Documentation Publishing House, 2011.
  • Keller, Perry. “The Protection of Human Dignity Under Chinese Law.” In The Cambridge Handbook of Human Dignity, edited by Marcus Düwell, Jens Braarvig, Roger Brownsword, and Dietmar Mieth, assisted by Naomi van Steenbergen and Dascha Düring, 414–421. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014.
  • Koppelman, Andrew, and Benjamin Gregg. “Critical Exchange on Human Rights as Social Construction.” Contemporary Political Theory 13 (2014): 380–386. doi: 10.1057/cpt.2014.10
  • Krumbein, Frédéric. “P. C. Chang—The Chinese Father of Human Rights.” Journal of Human Rights 14, no. 3 (2015): 332–352. doi: 10.1080/14754835.2014.886953
  • Lai, Pan-chiu. “Human Rights and Christian-Confucian Dialogue.” Studies in Interreligious Dialogue 23, no. 2 (2013): 133–149.
  • Moltmann, Jürgen, Nicholas Wolterstorff, and Ellen T. Charry. “Christianity and the Revaluation of the Values of Modernity and of the Western World.” In A Passion for God’s Reign: Theology, Christian Learning, and the Christian Self, edited by Miroslav Volf, 23–43. Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1998.
  • Moltmann, Jürgen. On Human Dignity: Political Theology and Ethics. Translated by M. Douglas Meeks. Philadelphia, PA: Fortress Press, 1984.
  • Nathan, Andrew J. “Sources of Chinese Rights Thinking.” In Human Rights in Contemporary China, edited by R. Randle Edwards, Louis Henkin, and Andrew J. Nathan, 125–164. New York: Columbia University Press, 1986.
  • Perry, Elizabeth J. “Chinese Conceptions of ‘Rights’: From Mencius to Mao and Now.” Perspectives on Politics 6, no. 1 (2008): 37–50. doi: 10.1017/S1537592708080055
  • Pils, Eva. Human Rights in China: A Social Practice in the Shadows of Authoritarianism. Cambridge, UK; Medford, MA: Polity Press, 2018.
  • Schweiker, William. Theological Ethics and Global Dynamics: In the Time of Many Worlds. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing, 2004.
  • Shan, Mark Chuanhang. Christianity and Civil Society in China: Christian Ethics is Transforming Citizenship Rights and Church-State Relations in China Through Invisible and Unstructured Church Communities. Accessed July 19, 2018. http://www.ccta.me/2013/03/mark-shan-christianity-and-civil.html.
  • Stammers, Neil. “Social Movements and the Social Construction of Human Rights.” Human Rights Quarterly 21 (1999): 980–1008. doi: 10.1353/hrq.1999.0054
  • Stamo, David N. The Myth of Universal Human Rights: Its Origin, History, and Explanation, Along with a More Humane Way. Boulder, CO: Paradigim Publishers, 2013.
  • Sun, Pinghua. Human Rights Protection System in China. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag, 2014.
  • Svensson, Marina. Debating Human Rights in China. Lanham, MD: Rowan & Littlefield Publisher, 2002.
  • Twiss, Sumner B. “A Constructive Framework for Discussing Confucianism and Human Rights.” In Confucianism and Human Rights, edited by Wm. Theodore de Bary, and Tu Weiming, 27–53. New York: Columbia University Press, 1998.
  • Weatherley, Robert. The Discourse of Human Rights in China: Historical and Ideological Perspectives. New York: St. Martin’s Press Inc., 1999.
  • Welch, Claude E. Jr., and Sergio Brian Cruz Egoávil. “China’s Rising Power: Economic Growth vs. Freedom Deficit.” Journal of Human Rights 10 (2011): 290–310. doi: 10.1080/14754835.2011.596051
  • Williams, Craig. “International Human Rights and Confucianism.” Asia-Pacific Journal on Human Rights and the Law 7 (2006): 38–66. doi: 10.1163/157181506778218139
  • Xie, Zhibin. “Why Public and Theological? The Problem of Public Theology in the Chinese Context.” International Journal of Public Theology 11, no. 4 (2017): 381–404. doi: 10.1163/15697320-12341509
  • Yin, Haiguang. “Do You Want to Be a Human Being?” In The Chinese Human Rights Reader: Documents and Commentary 1900-2000, edited by Stephen C. Angle, and Marian Svensson, 229–239. Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, 2001.
  • Ying, Fuk-tsang. “Rights Defense Movement and Christian Faith in China.” Newsletter of The Center for Christian Center and Christian Study Center on Chinese Religion & Culture 21 (2014, March): 1–7.
  • Zhao, Jun. “China and the Uneasy Case for Universal Human Rights.” Human Rights Quarterly 37, no. 1 (2015, February): 29–52. doi: 10.1353/hrq.2015.0020

Reprints and Corporate Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

To request a reprint or corporate permissions for this article, please click on the relevant link below:

Academic Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

Obtain permissions instantly via Rightslink by clicking on the button below:

If you are unable to obtain permissions via Rightslink, please complete and submit this Permissions form. For more information, please visit our Permissions help page.