The Stability Imperative : Human Rights and Law in China (Asia Pacific Legal Culture and Globalization)

Biddulph, Sarah

University of British Columbia Press（2015/06発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 332 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780774828802
• DDC分類 323.0951

Full Description

"Stability preservation" (weiwen) has long been an imperative of China's one-party state. At the same time, China has recently embedded a commitment to the protection of human rights in its constitution. This book examines the multiple and shifting ways in which weiwen impinges on the implementation of human rights. Using case studies, Sarah Biddulph methodically examines the state's response to labour unrest, medical disputes, and forced housing evictions. As she demonstrates, the state's reaction can vary from taking steps to ameliorate the underlying causes of the citizens' grievances to the repression of rights-related protests and the punishment of protestors. The Stability Imperative: Human Rights and Law in China reveals how the systematic failure of the legal system to protect rights coupled with an overemphasis on coercive forms of stability preservation is undermining the authority of law in China and could, ultimately, damage the Communist Party's leadership.

Contents

1 Rights in a Time of Anxiety about Stability

2 Labour Rights and Stability

3 Housing Expropriation, Demolition, and Relocation

4 The Right to Medical Care and Causing Havoc in Hospitals (Yinao)

5 Punishing Protest

6 Abolishing Re-Education through Labour

7 Governance for Rights and Stability?

Appendix: Legislation, Administrative Regulations and Rules, Normative Documents, and Party Documents

Notes; References; Index