Historic Achievement of a Common Standard: Pengchun Chang and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights - Couverture rigide

Sun, Pinghua

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 9811083681 ISBN 13 : 9789811083686

Editeur : Springer Verlag, Singapore, 2018

Synopsis

The subject of this book is human rights law, focusing on historic achievement of a common standard viewed from a perspective of Pengchun Chang’s contributions to the drafting of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR).  This is an original research, integrating different research methods: inter-disciplinary approaches, historical and comparative methods, and documentary research and so on. The research findings can be described briefly as follows: Chinese wisdom has played an important role in achieving a common standard for the establishment of the international human rights system, which can be seen by exploring P. C. Chang’s contributions to the drafting of the UDHR. The target readers are global scholars and students in law, politics, philosophy, international relations, human rights law, legal history, religion and culture.  This book will enable these potential readers to have a vivid picture of the Chinese contributions to the international human rights regime and to have a better understanding of the significance of the traditional Chinese culture and P. C. Chang’s human rights philosophy of pluralism.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Pinghua Sun, a Professor at China University of Political Science and Law (CUPL). He earned a Ph.D. in Human Rights Law at CUPL (the first Doctor of Human Rights Law in China), M.A. at the University of Warwick and M.A. at Beijing Normal University. He was a visiting scholar at the School of Law, University of Exeter, where he ran a postgraduate course "Human Rights in China" (LAWM706). He also serves as a peer reviewer of the National Social Science Fund. He has published extensively in the areas of human rights law, applied linguistics, curriculum and pedagogy. In recent years he has been invited to deliver lectures or speeches at Oxford University (UK), Purdue University (US), the University of Bologna (Italy), Albany Law School (US), and dozens of universities in China. He presided over three projects of the National Social Science Fund, and two of his China Academic Translation Projects, including 1)Human Rights Protection System in China (Springer 2014) and2)Historic Achievement of a Common Standard (Springer 2018), sponsored by the Chinese Fund for Humanities and Social Sciences. His Chinese works include 1)The Study of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (Peking University Press 2012), winning the second prize of the 13th Excellent Achievement of Philosophy and Social Sciences of Beijing Municipality in 2014; 2)Pengchun Chang: A Crucial Architect of the International Human Rights System (Social Sciences Academic Press 2017), selected into "National Achievements Library of Philosophy and Social Sciences" in 2016.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

The subject of this book is human rights law, focusing on historic achievement of a common standard viewed from a perspective of Pengchun Chang s contributions to the drafting of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR).  This is an original research, integrating different research methods: inter-disciplinary approaches, historical and comparative methods, and documentary research and so on. The research findings can be described briefly as follows: Chinese wisdom has played an important role in achieving a common standard for the establishment of the international human rights system, which can be seen by exploring P. C. Chang s contributions to the drafting of the UDHR. The target readers are global scholars and students in law, politics, philosophy, international relations, human rights law, legal history, religion and culture.  This book will enable these potential readers to have a vivid picture of the Chinese contributions to the international human rights regime and to have a better understanding of the significance of the traditional Chinese culture and P. C. Chang s human rights philosophy of pluralism.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Springer Verlag, Singapore
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 9811083681
• ISBN 13: 9789811083686
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 450
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