| 英文摘要 |
Although plenty of studies and reports have been written on the subject of Chinese human rights from liberal and socialist perspectives, their common weakness is that they are colored with ideological assumptions that will be disputed by the opposite side. Their evaluation of Chinese human rights is thus incapable of bringing about a meeting of minds between the liberal West and socialist China. In particular, liberal and socialist writers disagree ideologically on what primarily defines us as human beings, which leads to diverging interpretations of how the rights of human beings are supposed to be implemented in practice. Liberal writers define human beings through free will and rational thought which leads to greater emphasis on rights related to an individual's mind (mainly CPR), while socialist writers define them through their social relations and their material living conditions, leading to greater emphasis on rights that improve the social and material environment (mainly ESCR). The consequence of this ideological division is that Western liberals and Chinese socialists are essentially talking past each other when it comes to human rights. |
