The East Asian challenge for human rights / edited by Joanne R. Bauer, and Daniel A. Bell.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Joanne R. Bauer and Daniel A. Bell -- Pt. I. Critical Perspectives on the "Asian Values" Debate. Ch. 1. Liberal Democracy and Asian Orientalism / Inoue Tatsuo. Ch. 2. Human Rights and Asian Values: A Defense of "Western" Universalism / Jack Donnelly. Ch. 3. Human Rights and Economic Achievements / Amartya Sen -- Pt. II. Toward a More Inclusive Human Rights Regime. Ch. 4. Toward an Intercivilizational Approach to Human Rights / Onuma Yasuaki. Ch. 5. Conditions of an Unforced Consensus on Human Rights / Charles Taylor -- Pt. III. Culture and Human Rights. Ch. 6. The Cultural Mediation of Human Rights: The Al-Arqam Case in Malaysia / Abdullahi A. An-Na'im. Ch. 7. Grounding Human Rights Arguments in Non-Western Culture: Shari'a and the Citizenship Rights of Women in a Modern Islamic State / Norani Othman. Ch. 8. Looking to Buddhism to Turn Back Prostitution in Thailand / Sewanna Satha-Anand.

Ch. 9. A Confucian Perspective on Human Rights for Contemporary China / Joseph Chan -- Pt. IV. Economic Development and Human Rights. Ch. 10. Rights, Social Justice, and Globalization in East Asia / Yash Ghai. Ch. 11. Economic Development, Legal Reform, and Rights in Singapore and Taiwan / Kevin Y. L. Tan. Ch. 12. Human Rights Issues in China's Internal Migration: Insights from Comparisons with Germany and Japan / Dorothy J. Solinger. Ch. 13. The Anti-Nuclear Power Movement in Taiwan: Claiming the Right to a Clean Environment / Mab Huang. Ch. 14. The Applicability of the International Legal Concept of "Indigenous Peoples" in Asia / Benedict Kingsbury.

The "Asian values" argument within the international human rights debate holds that not all Asian states can be or should be expected to protect human rights to the same degree due to varying levels of economic, political, and legal development and to differing cultural views on the virtues and necessity of freedom.