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There is a tremendous amount of literature related to human rights in China; we collect here some of the best recent work. We list here the best articles on the subject, indicating which it is possible to access on-line.

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  1. Ames, Roger T. "Rites as Rights: The Confucian Alternative." in Human Rights and the World's Religions. ed. Leroy S. Rouner, 199-216. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1988.
  2. -----. "Continuing the Conversation on Chinese Human Rights." Ethics & International Affairs. 177-205. , 1997. [See also Reply by Donnelly; #11 below]
  3. Baker, Phillip. "Human Rights, Europe and the People's Republic of China." The China Quarterly 160 (2002), pp. 45-63.
  4. Brun, Ole. "Asian Values: From Emotional Response to Political Rhetoric." Nordic Newsletter of Asian Studies.
  5. Chan, Anita. "Labor Standards and Human Rights: The Case of Chinese Workers Under Market Socialism." Human Rights Quarterly 20.4 (1998), pp. 886-904.*
  6. Chan, Joseph. "An Alternative View." Journal of Democracy 8:2 (1997), pp. 35-48.*
  7. -----. "A Confucian Perspective on Human Rights for Contemporary China." in The East Asian Challenge for Human Rights. eds. Joanne R. Bauer, and Daniel A. Bell, 212-240. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999.
  8. -----. "The Asian Challenge to Universal Human Rights: A Philosophical Appraisal." in Human Rights and International Relations in the Asia-Pacific Region. ed. James T. H. Tang, London: Pinter, 1995.
  9. -----. "Thick and Thin Accounts of Human Rights." in Human Rights and Asian Values: Contesting National Identities and Cultural Representations in Asia. eds. Michael Jacobsen, and Ole Bruun, Richmond: Curzon, 2000.
  10. Chan, Steve. "Human Rights in China and the United States: Competing Visions and Discrepant Performances." Human Rights Quarterly 24.4 (2002).*
  11. Chu, Ron Guey. "Rites and Rights in Ming China." Confucianism and Human Rights. eds. Wm Theodore DeBary, and Tu Wei-ming (New York: Columbia University Press, 1998), pp. 169-178.
  12. Cmiel, Kenneth. "The Recent History of Human Rights." The American Historical Review 109:1 (2004). On-line Publication.
  13. DeBary, William Theodore. "Neo-Confucianism and Human Rights." in Human Rights and the World's Religions. ed. Leroy S. Rouner (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1988), pp. 183-198.
  14. Dittmer, Lowell. "Chinese Human Rights and American Foreign Policy: A Realist Approach," The Review of Politics 63:3 (2001), pp. 421-59.
  15. Donnelly, Jack. "Conversing with Straw Men While Ignoring Dictators: A Reply to Roger Ames." Ethics & International Affairs (1997), pp. 207-213. [A reply to Ames; see #2, above]
  16. -----. "Human Rights and Asian Values: A Defense of "Western" Universalism." in The East Asian Challenge for Human Rights. eds. Joanne R. Bauer, and Daniel A. Bell. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999), pp. 60-87.
  17. Dowdle, Michael W. "How a Liberal Jurist Defends the Bankok Declaration." in Negotiating Culture and Human Rights. eds. Lynda S. Bell, Andrew J. Nathan, and Ilan Peleg. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2001).
  18. Foot, Rosemary. "Bush, China and Human Rights." Survival 45:2 (2003), pp. 167-186.
  19. Fung, Edmund S. K. "The Human Rights Issue in China, 1929-1931." Modern Asian Studies (1998), pp. 431-457.
  20. Greiff, Thomas E. "The Principle of Human Rights in Nationalist China: John C. H. Wu and the Ideological Origins of the 1946 Constitution." China Quarterly (1985).
  21. Guang, Lei. "Elusive Deomcracy: Conceptual Change and the Chinese Democracy Movement, 1978-79 to 1989." Modern China (1996).
  22. Hansen, Chad. "The Asian Values Debate and the Moral Synthesis Goals of Comparative Philosophy." On-line publication.
  23. -----. "Do Human Rights Apply to China? A Normative Analysis of Cultural Difference." On-line publication.
  24. Harris, Seth R. "Asian Human Rights: Forming a Regional Covenant." Asia-Pacific Law and Policy Journal (2000).
  25. Keith, Ronald C. "The New Relevance of "Rights and Interests": China's Changing Human Rights Theories." China Information (1995), pp. 38-61.
  26. Kent, Ann. "States Monitoring States: The United States, Australia, and China's Human Rights, 1990-2001." Human Rights Quarterly 23:3 (2001), pp. 583-624.*
  27. Liu, Lydia H. "Legislating the Universal: The Circulation of International Law in the Nineteenth Century." in Tokens of Exchange: The Problem of Translation in Global Circulations. ed. Lydia H. Liu. (Durham: Duke University Press, 1999), pp. 127-164.
  28. Moore, Gregory J. "Human Rights and United States Policy towards China in the New Milenium." Human Rights Working Papers 8 (September 18, 2000).
  29. Min, Tu-ki. "Late Ch'ing Reformists (1895-1898) and Rousseau: Min-Ch'uan versus Popular Soveriegnty." Tsing Hua Journal of Chinese Studies (December 1985), pp. 199-209.
  30. Nathan, Andrew. "Sources of Chinese Rights Thinking." in Human Rights in Contemporary China. eds. R. Randle Edwards, Louis Henkin, and Andrew J. Nathan (New York: Columbia University Press, 1986).
  31. Peerenboom, Randall. "Confucian Harmony and Freedom of Thought: The Right to Think Versus Right Thinking." Confucianism and Human Rights. eds. Wm Theodore DeBary, and Tu Wei-ming (New York: Columbia University Press, 1998), pp. 235-260.
  32. Peerenboom, Randall P. "Rights, Interests, and the Interest in Rights in China." Stanford Journal of International Law (1995), pp. 359-386.
  33. -----. "What's Wrong with Chinese Rights?: Toward a Theory of Rights with Chinese Characteristics." Harvard Human Rights Journal (1993), pp. 29-57.
  34. Samuels, Harriet. "Hong Kong on Women, Asian Values, and the Law." Human Rights Quarterly 21.3 (1999), pp. 707-734.*
  35. Shalev, Carmel. "China to CEDAW: An Update on Population Policy." Human Rights Quarterly 23.1 (2001), pp. 119-147.*
  36. Spar, Frederic J. "Human Rights and Political Engagement: Luo Longji in the 1930s." in Roads Not Taken: The Struggle of Opposition Parties in Twentieth-Century China. ed. Roger B. Jeans, Boulder: Westview Press, 1992.
  37. Thompson, Mark. R. "Whatever Happened to 'Asian Values'?" Journal of Democracy 12:4 (October 2001), pp. 154-165.*
  38. Wakabayashi, Bob Tadashi. "Kato Hiroyuki and Confucian Natural Rights, 1861-1870." Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies (1984).
  39. Wasserstrom, Jeff. "Beyond Ping-Pong Diplomacy: China and Human Rights." World Policy Journal XVII:4 (Winter 2000/01)
 
  

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