Exporting Virtue? China's International Human Rights Activism in the Age of Xi Jinping

Potter, Pitman B.

ISBN 10: 0774865563 / ISBN 13: 9780774865562

Published by Univ of British Columbia Pr, 2021

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268 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.90 inches. In Stock.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Exporting Virtue? China's International Human Rights Activism in the Age of Xi Jinping
• Publisher: Univ of British Columbia Pr
• Publication Date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0774865563
• ISBN 13: 9780774865562
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Brand New
• Weight: 0.43 kilograms

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Synopsis

Now in paperback, Exporting Virtue? investigates the challenges posed by China’s human rights doctrine and lays the groundwork for an effective international response.

Human rights tensions shadow China’s global rise. Without clear international standards, China has pursued socioeconomic rights across Asia at the expense of political liberty for its own people. Couched in terms of virtue but manifested as authoritarianism, the PRC’s global activism undermines international human rights law toward its own policy interests. Pitman B. Potter argues in Exporting Virtue? that decision-makers around the world should engage more effectively in this struggle over human rights standards. Drawing on both Chinese and English language sources, Potter investigates the challenges posed by China’s human rights orthodoxy and lays the groundwork for an effective international response.
 

About the Author

Pitman B. Potter is professor of law emeritus at the University of British Columbia and a former director of Chinese legal studies. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and a member of the Order of Canada, and he has practiced law in British Columbia, Washington state, and California throughout his academic career. He is the author of Exporting Virtue? China’s International Human Rights Activism in the Age of Xi Jinping and Assessing Treaty Performance in China: Trade and Human Rights and China’s Legal System, among others.