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The East Asian Challenge for Human Rights.(Brief Article) (book reviews)
Asian Affairs: An American Review, September, 1999 by COPPER, JOHN F.
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JOANNE R. BAUER and DANIEL A. BELL, eds. The East Asian Challenge for Human Rights Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999 394 pages, $57.95 (hardcover), $21.95 (paperback)
Anyone looking for a general assessment, or even an enumeration, of the gross human rights abuses that have occurred in some East Asian countries in recent years will surely be disappointed with this work. Mao Zedong, who extinguished probably well over one hundred million souls and must be considered history's worst violator of human rights, is not to be found in the index. Neither is Pol Pot, who may ...
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