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Biddulph, Sarah; Rosenzweig, Joshua --- "Introduction to the Handbook on Human Rights in China" [2019] ELECD 1294; in Biddulph, Sarah; Rosenzweig, Joshua (eds), "Handbook on Human Rights in China" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2019) 1

Book Title: Handbook on Human Rights in China

Editor(s): Biddulph, Sarah; Rosenzweig, Joshua

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Section: Chapter 1

Section Title: Introduction to the Handbook on Human Rights in China

Author(s): Biddulph, Sarah; Rosenzweig, Joshua

Number of pages: 12

Abstract/Description:

This introductory chapter sets out the objectives and scope of the Handbook. It discusses China’s evolving approach to human rights internationally and domestically. At the international level, it traces how China has become much more assertive in its engagements with international human rights agencies and institutions and the impacts of this increasing activism and advocacy on international human rights. At the domestic level, it looks at China’s modes of engagement with human rights law and norms and identifies several important themes that run through the chapters in the Handbook. These themes include: the relation between legal, political and rhetorical promises of rights and their realization in practice; the relation between development-focused and rights-based approaches to improving people’s livelihoods; and the impact of the authoritarian political form and demand for social and political stability on China’s approach to human rights.