Kenneth Christie & Denny Roy 
The Politics of Human Rights in East Asia [PDF ebook] 

Refugees fleeing East Timor. Tiananmen Square in China. The killing fields in Cambodia. Freedom of speech in Singapore. The subject of human rights in Asia is a hotly debated one. In The Politics of Human Rights in East Asia, the authors survey the human rights records and attitudes of each country.



The countries covered are: China, Taiwan, Korea, Japan, Indonesia, Myanmar, Cambodia, Vietnam, Thailand, the Philippines, Malaysia and Singapore. Kenneth Christie covers Southeast Asia and Denny Roy covers Northeast Asia. They conclude with a discussion of the Association of East Asian Nation’s (ASEAN) role and suggestions for the future. Throughout, they examine the competing meaning of human rights in the Western versus the non-Western context and place the role of human rights within the framework of each country’s history and political and economic development.

Table of Content

1. Introduction: Human Rights in East Asia

Section 1: Southeast Asia: Kenneth Christie

2. Singapore, Malaysia, and ASEAN

3. Myanmar and Vietnam

4. Indonesia

5.Thailand and the Philippines

6. Cambodia

Section 2: Northeast Asia: Denny Roy

7. China

8. Taiwan

9. Japan

10. North and South Korea

Index

About the author

Denny Roy is a resesarch fellow at the Asia Pacific Center for Security Studies in Honolulu, Hawaii.