How can we make sense of human rights in China's authoritarian
system? In this insightful book, China law expert Eva Pils offers a
nuanced account of this contentious area, examining human rights as
a set of social practices involving a variety of actors, including
officials of the system and civil society actors. Drawing on a wide
range of resources including years of interaction with Chinese
human rights defenders, Pils discusses sources of human rights
violations, as well as institutional avenues of protection and
social practices of human rights defence. Three central areas are
given special attention: liberty and integrity of the person and
the right not to be tortured; freedom of thought and expression;
and inequality and socio-economic rights. Pils argues that the
Party-State system is inherently opposed to human rights principles
in all these areas. Yet, civil society actors have developed social
practices of human rights advocacy whose political significance is
not entirely dependent on the Party-State. Despite
authoritarianism's lengthening shadows, China's human rights
movement has so far proved resourceful and resilient, and the
trajectories discussed in this book will continue to shape ongoing
struggles.
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