China's participation in the international human rights regime: A state identity perspective

Chinese Journal of International Politics

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 399-419

  Dingding, Chen ^a  

^a HAMILTON COLLEGE   (United States)

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EID: 66449102123     PISSN: 17508916     EISSN: 17508924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cjip/pop002     Document Type: Article

References (34)

1. For example, see Rosemary Foot, Rights beyond Borders: The Global Community and the Struggle over Human Rights in China (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000)
2. and Ann Kent, China, the United Nations, and Human Rights: The Limits of Compliance (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999).
3. Sheng Baoxiang et al., 'On the Question of Human Rights in the International Realm', Beijing Review (1982), p. 16.
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7. Interview, Beijing, July 2003.
8. Liu Huaqiu, 'Proposals for Human Rights Protection and Promotion', Beijing Review (1993), p. 9.
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10. Interview, Beijing, July 2003.
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31. Interview, Beijing, August 2004.
32. Allen Carlson, Unifying China, Integrating with the World.
33. Rosemary Foot, Rights Beyond Borders, p. 19.
34. It must be pointed out that although my emphasis in this article is on China's human rights foreign policy, the state identity perspective could potentially be applied to other foreign policy issues such as economic opening and security policies.