The Chinese Human Rights Reader

Includes translations of sixty selections from China's twentieth-century human rights discourse, along with commentary on the context. A glossary links translations of key terms to their Chinese equivalents.

Stephen C. Angle is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Wesleyan University. Marina Svensson is Assistant Professor at the Department of East Asian Languages, Lund University.

Part I. Last Years of the Qing Dynasty: 1900-1911 Part II. The New Culture Movement, May Fourth, and the Twenties: 1914-1926, Part III. The Nanjing Decade: 1927-1937, Part IV. War with Japan and Civil War: 1937-1949 Part V.1949, Part VI. 1976-1986, Including the Democracy Wall Movement Part VII. The Late 1980s: Before and After Tiananmen Part VIII. The 1990s