This page is devoted to the academic study of human rights and China, with a particular focus on materials that are available on the internet. Students should always remember that many of the highest quality resources are not available on the internet, so this should only serve as a beginning or supplement to any research. For some suggestions of both conventional print resources and on-line articles, see the Bibliography page.

Conferences

Upcoming conferences that relate to China and Human Rights will be listed here; we will also endeavor to keep track of any results of past conferences that are made available.

Courses on China and Human Rights

Here we list selected courses and/or syllabi taught by human rights scholars at various universities. The courses may or may not be currently offered, and none of them offer distance-learning options. Numerous other syllabi of human rights-related courses are collected here, here, and here.

• Anne Thurston's "Human Rights and the Development of Democracy in China" at Johns Hopkins University
• George Andreopoulos's "International Human Rights" at Yale University
• Stephen C. Angle's "Human Rights Across Cultures" at Wesleyan University
• Stephen C. Angle's "Human Rights and Chinese Philosophy" at Wesleyan University
• Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im's "Human Rights in Cross-Cultural Perspectives" at the University of Saskatchewan
• Rebecca J. Cook's "International Women's Rights Law" at the University of Toronto
• John Cort's "Dilemmas in the International System: Human Rights and Asian Values" at Denison University
• Margaret E. Crahan's "Human Rights and Basic Needs in the Americas" at Hunter College
• Peter Danchin's "Human Rights in International and Domestic Law & Institutions" at Columbia University
• Jack Donnelly and David Goldfischer's "Human Rights and Foreign Policy" at the University of Denver: Human rights and foreign policy with a special focus on Sino-American relations
• Francisco Ferrandiz and Jody Ranck's "Cultural Relativisim and Human Rights" at the University of California, Berkeley
• Andrew Heard's "Human Rights Theories" at Simon Fraser University
• Joost R. Hiltermann's "Talking Rights, Tackling Abuses: Human Rights in the Arab World, Africa and Beyond" at Georgetown University
• Gordon Lauren's "The history of human rights"
• Rita Maran's "Human rights" at the University of California, Berkeley
• Andrew Nathan's "Cultural Difference and Values: Human Rights and the Challenge of Relativism" at Columbia University (a NEH Summer Seminar for College Teachers)
• Ian Neary's "Human rights and Asian values" at the University of Essex
• J. S. Peters's "Literature and Human Rights" at Columbia University
• M. Colette Plum's "Human Rights in China" at Stanford University
• Jody Ranck's "Power, Culture and Human Rights" at the University of California, Berkeley
• This "WebQuest" on China from the Knowledge Network might also be of interest
• Lora Wildenthal's "The History of Human Rights" at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Adrien K. Wing's "Human Rights in the World Community"

University Human Rights Centers and Websites of Researchers on Human Rights

• The Beijing University Law School Human Rights Centre has recently launched a web site.
• The Center for the Study of Human Rights at Columbia University
• University of Denver's Human Rights Institute
  • See also this site's Human Rights Working Papers, listed below under Journals.
• The HKU Research Group on Comparative Legal and Political Philosophy. Members of this group have published numerous important studies related to China and human rights.
• Chad Hansen has posted several of his articles on China and human rights at this site.
• Human Rights Program at Harvard Law School
• Human Rights Research and Education Center, University Of Ottawa
• Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law
• Norwegian Institute of Human Rights
• Danish Centre for Human Rights

Important Journals

Some of these journals will only be available to those whose institutions subscribe to the needed on-line service. If you do not have such access, you can still find these journals in your library.

• Human Rights Dialogue, the first year especially is devoted to East Asia
• Human Rights Quarterly, a premier academic journal on human rights-related topics
• Human Rights Tribune
• Yale Human Rights and Development Law Journal
• Human Rights Working Papers from the University of Denver's Human Rights Institute
• Human Rights & Human Welfare: An International Review of Books and Other Publications, Published by the Center On Rights Development (CORD) at the Graduate School of International Studies, University of Denver. Recent issues of this new journal have included reviews of works on China and human rights.

General Information on Human Rights Education

For web sites with useful information about how to teach human rights and different materials, see the following:

• The UN High Commisioner for Human Rights, which has a database for human rights education.
• Human Rights Education Associates
• Human Rights Resource Center, part of the University of Minnesota Human Rights Center.
  • See especially its page devoted to human rights education
• Here is a good article on human rights education by Richard Claude, who has a wide experience in the field.

There also exist several good compilations and overviews of human rights resources on the web:

• Project Diana
• The ASIL Resource Guide on Human Rights
• The Derechos Human Rights site