Pinghua Sun Livres

Focusing on the contributions of Pengchun Chang to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, this book explores the integration of Chinese wisdom in the development of international human rights law. Through interdisciplinary research methods, it highlights Chang's pivotal role in establishing a common standard for human rights. Targeted at scholars and students across various fields, the work aims to deepen understanding of traditional Chinese culture and Chang's philosophy of pluralism within the context of the global human rights regime.

In recent years, more and more scholars in the world feel interested in the topic of human right protection status in China. This book hopes to serve as a window through which its readers will have a better understanding of theory and practice of human rights protection in the Chinese context. The book systematically introduces the dynamic development and progress of human rights protection in China, attaching great importance to the first white paper on Human Rights in China, “The state respects and guarantees human rights” included in the Constitution, National Human Rights Action Plan of China, and then putting forth fundamental principles to achieve international human rights standards and specific measures to improve human rights protection standards in China. Then the book further discusses “Foundations of Human Rights Guarantee in Contemporary China”, “Human Rights, Culture and Their Reconstruction in the Chinese Context” and “Socialist Legal System with Chinese Characteristics”. Then, a final chapter is dedicated to the topic of “Judicial Protection System of Human Rights in China”. In appendices, four important documents on human rights in China, as well as a list of the author’s major articles and works in the past 10 years are provided.​