Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction
The UN Human Rights Regime and China's
Participation Before
China, the UN Commission on Human Rights, and the UN Sub-Commission on Human Rights
China and Torture: Treaty Bodies and Special Rapporteurs
China and the UN Specialized Agencies: The
International Labor Organization
Theory, Policy, and Diplomacy before Vienna
The UN World Human Rights Conference at Vienna
After Vienna: China's Implementation of Human Rights
Conclusion

Notes
Index

About the Author

Ann Kent, Australian Research Council fellow in the Law Program at Australian National University, is the author of Between Freedom and Subsistence: China and Human Rights.

Reviews

"An ambitious and impressive undertaking that makes a significant contribution to the understanding of how international regimes function and how China interacts with the international order."—R. Randle Edwards, Columbia University

"Impressive. . . . Rarely does one encounter such fine, readable scholarship on such a timely, complex issue."—Choice

"Kent combines primary and secondary research into a detailed case study that tells us important things about both China's relations with the external world and the strengths and limits of contemporary multilateral human rights institutions."—Jack Donnelly, University of Denver

"Ann Kent's China, the United Nations, and Human Rights is remarkable in that it provides both an in-depth analysis of China's human rights policy and its interaction with the various United Nations organs concerned with human rights, and an assessment of the UN human rights regime's success. . . . For all these reasons, and because it is so well written and researched, Ann Kent's new book is a much-welcomed, much-needed addition to the study of human rights and China."—Global Justice