Format:
1 online resource (178 pages)
ISBN:
9781614700593
Series Statement:
China in the 21st Century
Content:
Intro -- HUMAN RIGHTS IN CHINA -- HUMAN RIGHTS IN CHINA -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- Chapter 1 HUMAN RIGHTS IN CHINA: TRENDS AND POLICY IMPLICATIONS* -- ABSTRACT -- OVERVIEW -- A MIXED PICTURE -- Selected Highlights from the State Department's Human Rights Report for 2007 -- The Birth of Civil Society -- Non-Governmental Organizations -- Human Rights Legislation -- Other Policy Developments -- Re-Education through Labor -- In the Provinces: Renewed Talk of Reform -- Recent Hopes and Disappointments -- 17th Party Congress -- Pre-Olympics Crackdown -- The Sichuan Earthquake and Civil Society -- SELECTED HUMAN RIGHTS ISSUE AREAS -- Persecution of Political Dissent -- State Control of Information -- Religious and Ethnic Issues -- Christians in China -- Tibetan Protests -- Uighur Muslims -- Falun Gong -- VARIABLES OF CHANGE -- Central vs. Local Governments -- Rights Awareness and Legal Activism -- Social Unrest -- Mainstream Protests -- New Agents of Democracy? -- New Communications Technologies -- U.S. EFFORTS TO ADVANCE HUMAN RIGHTS IN CHINA -- Openly Criticizing China -- Human Rights Dialogue -- Rule of Law and Civil Society Programs -- Public Diplomacy -- Internet Freedom -- Labor Rights -- Congressional-Executive Commission on China -- FURTHER READING -- APPENDIX -- PROFILES OF SELECTED IMPRISONED DISSIDENTS AND ACTIVISTS[120] -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 2 INTERNET DEVELOPMENT AND INFORMATION CONTROL IN THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA* -- ABSTRACT -- INTERNET DEVELOPMENT AND USE IN CHINA[3] -- Censorship and Content Control of the Internet -- METHODS OF PRC INTERNET CENSORSHIP AND CONTENT CONTROL -- Legal Regulations -- September 25, 2005 Regulations -- Technical Methods of Content Filtering -- Cyber-Police, Punitive Action, and Self-Censorship -- U.S. PRIVATE SECTOR INVOLVEMENT IN PRC INTERNET CENSORSHIP -- Yahoo and Shi Tao Case.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781607411161
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781607411161
Language:
English
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