Developmentalism and China’s human rights policy

Debating Human Rights: Critical essays from the United States and Asia

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 120-143

  Sullivan, Michael J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203202036-11     Document Type: Chapter

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