Human rights and Asian values :  contesting national identities and cultural representations in Asia / 
edited by Michael Jacobsen and Ole Bruun. 
 - London :  Routledge Curzon,   2019. 
 - 300 p. ;  25 cm. 
 - Democracy in Asia ;  6 .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references. 
<br/><br/>Introduction 1 Since There Is No East and There Is No West, How Could Either Be the Best? 2 Universal Rights and Particular Cultures 3 Thick and Thin Accounts of Human Rights 4 Once Again, The Asian Values Debate 5 Human Rights and Asian Values in Vietnam 6 Particularism, Identities and a Clash of Universalisms 7 Modernization without Westernization? 8 Human Rights in Vietnam 9 Freedom as an Asian Value 10 The Chinese Debate on Asian Values and Human Rights 11 Universal Human Rights and Chinese Liberalism 12 Practice to Theory 13 Human Rights Education in Asia 14 The Rights of Foreign Migrant Workers in Asia 
<br/><br/> The Asian challenge to the universality of human rights has ignited vigorous debate. This volume firmly supports universal rights, both theoretically and empirically, by examining social and political processes in several East and Southeast Asian countries. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780367239534 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Human rights - Asia.<br/>Asia - Politics and government.<br/>Social values - Asia.<br/>Democracy - Asia.
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>323.095  / JAC