TY  - BOOK
AU  - De Bary,William Theodore
TI  - Asian values and human rights: a Confucian communitarian perspective 
SN  - 0674001966
AV  - JC599.A78 D4 1998
U1  - 323.095 
PY  - 1998///
CY  - Cambridge, Mass., London
PB  - Harvard University Press
KW  - Human rights
KW  - Asia
KW  - Social values
KW  - Confucianism
KW  - Communitarianism
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-187) and index; 1. "Asian Values" and Confucianism -- 2. Individualism and Personhood -- 3. Laws and Rites -- 4. School and Community -- 5. The Community Compact -- 6. Chinese Constitutionalism and Civil Society -- 7. Women's Education and Women's Rights -- 8. Chinese Communism and Confucian Communitarianism
N2  - "Asian values" is a concept advanced by some authoritarian regimes to differentiate an Asian model of development, supposedly based on Confucianism, from a Western model identified with individualism, liberal democracy, and human rights. Highlighting the philosophical development of Confucianism as well as the Chinese historical experience with community organization, constitutionalism, education, and women's rights, Wm. Theodore de Bary argues that while the Confucian sense of personhood differs in some respects from Western libertarian concepts of the individual, it is not incompatible with human rights, but could, rather, enhance them
ER  -