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Historic Achievement of a Common Standard

Pengchun Chang and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

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  • Being an original research, and will bridge the gap in the international human rights area makes use of plenty of first-hand materials, data, UN documents, which will enrich the understanding of the whole drafting process of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
  • Systematically and completely shows P. C. Chang’s outstanding contributions to the drafting of the UDHR for historic achievement of a common standard
  • The research findings show that P. C. Chang’s contributions are bigger than anyone can imagine while the UDHR is viewed as a milestone in the history of human beings, and the traditional Chinese culture and P. C. Chang’s human rights philosophy of pluralism are discussed in details to support the establishment of the International human rights regime
  • Being a typical case to reveal the role that Chinese wisdom and traditional culture played in history

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The subject of this book is human rights law, focusing on historic achievement of a common standard viewed from a perspective of Pengchun Chang’s contributions to the drafting of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR).  This is an original research, integrating different research methods: inter-disciplinary approaches, historical and comparative methods, and documentary research and so on. The research findings can be described briefly as follows: Chinese wisdom has played an important role in achieving a common standard for the establishment of the international human rights system, which can be seen by exploring P. C. Chang’s contributions to the drafting of the UDHR. The target readers are global scholars and students in law, politics, philosophy, international relations, human rights law, legal history, religion and culture.  This book will enable these potential readers to have a vivid picture of the Chinese contributions to the international human rightsregime and to have a better understanding of the significance of the traditional Chinese culture and P. C. Chang’s human rights philosophy of pluralism.

Authors and Affiliations

  • School of Foreign Languages, China University of Political Science and Law, Beijing, China

    Pinghua Sun

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