Human right represents legally protected entitlements of individuals in society. And many have the impression that certain rights taken for granted are a sacred legacy from the past. 'Historically, the dialectic was between the rights of the rulers and the duties of the subjects. Beginning with the seventeenth century, the subjects or former subjects of the lords, kings, Church and God began to assert their own rights, those claims that they demand the law to …showed first 75 words of 2275 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2275 total…Kent, Between Freedom and Subsistence: China and Human Rights Oxford University Press, Hong Kong: 1993 Consult Julia Ching, Chinese Religions (Macmillan, London, 1993) 13) The Human Rights Reader, p. 197.Back to Text Julia Ching, Confucianism and Christianity, Konansha International, Tokyo, 1977. Carsun Chang, The Development of Neo-Confucian Thought (Appendix, New York,1963. Zhonguo, Chinese Thinking on Government by law, (Yenbo Press, Taipei, 1978. Julia Ching, Probing China's South Religion, Politics, Protest in the People's Republic,Harper & Row, San Francisco, 1990.