Table of Contents

Preface, Guide to Bibliographic Citations, Abbreviations, Part I: Chinese Observance of Internationally Recognized Human Rights, 1. Introduction, 2. Freedom of Information, 3. Legal Equality, 4. Prisoners of Conscience, 5. Cruel Punishment, 6. Education, 7. Culture, 8. Mobility, 9. Family, 10.Women, 11. Ethnic Minorities, 12. Religion, 13. The Aged, 14. Housing, 15. Handicapped, 16. Sexual Preference, 17. Property, Part II: Human Rights and Chinese Politics, 1. The Intellectuals, 2. Humanism and Alienation, 3. Spiritual Pollution, Part III: The Outsider Detained: Two Cases, 1. Fang Dan, 2. Tiziano Terzani, Part IV: Reviews: Reports from Two Organizations, Amnesty International Review by Timothy A. Gelatt, Fund for Free Expression Review by Anita Chan, Index, About the Author

About the Author

A graduate of Yale University, James D. Seymour received a Ph.D. in Public Law and Government from Columbia University. He has taught at N.Y.U., the New School for Social Research, and Columbia and is currently a Visiting Research Fellow at Columbia's East Asian Institute. Professor Seymour is the author of China: The Politics of Revolutionary Reintegration (1976) and The Fifth Modernization: China's Human Rights Movement, 1978-1979 (1980), the co-author of Introduction to Comparative Politics (1984), and the editor of SPEARhead: Bulletin of the Society for the Protection of East Asians' Human Rights.