Human Rights in Korea - Historical and Policy Perspectives

These chapters by eight Korea specialists present a new approach to human rights issues in Korea.Instead of using an external and purely contemporary standard, the authors work from within Korean history.

Summary

Instead of using an external and purely contemporary standard, the authors work from within Korean history, treating the successive phases of Korea’s modern century to examine the uneasy fate of human rights and some of the ideas of human rights as they have developed in the Korean context.

Product details

• Authors: William Shaw
• Assisted by: William Shaw (Editor), William H. Shaw (Editor)
• Publisher: Harvard University, Asia Center
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.05.1991
• EAN: 9780674416055
• ISBN: 978-0-674-41605-5
• No. of pages: 366
• Dimensions: 161 mm x 236 mm x 33 mm
• Weight: 689 g
• Series: Studies in East Asian Law; Harvard Studies in East Asian Law (HUP); Harvard Studies in East Asian Law
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political system