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Confucianism and Human Rights. Edited by W. Theodore de Bary and Tu Wei-ming. (New York: Columbia University Press, 1998. Pp. xxiii, 327. $40.00.)

In this final year of the century, human rights (renquan in Chinese) is a topic of considerable moment and international interest. The academic prominence of this concern is evident in the increasing number of essay collections on this subject that have appeared in the last few years, including Michael C. Davis, ed., Human Rights and Chinese Values; R. Randle Edwards, Louis Henkin, and Andrew J. Nathan, eds., Human Rights in ...