Volume 15 No. 1 (April 2020) (Evolutions Converging? Human Rights Internationalism and the Chinese Political-Economic Model from Reform and Opening Up to New Era Thought)

(ISBN 978-949943-02-3; Volume 15 No. 1 Editors: Flora Sapio and Larry Catá Backer)

This issue includes a series of essays considering the way in which human rights internationalism and the development of Chinese Marxist Leninist ideology may be converging as to form and emphasis. The first set of essays considers the evolution of human rights internationalism through the lens of the 8th U.N. Forum for Business and Human Rights (2019). The second set of essays examines the movement from Reform and Opening Up to New Era Thought through the lens of speeches delivered in 1986 by Xi Zhongxun and then in 2018 by his son Xi Jinping.

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CONTENTS

Front Matter (View HERE)

A. Introduction

  1. Larry Catá Backer and Flora Sapio, Introduction: Evolutions Converging? Human Rights Internationalism and the Chinese Political-Economic Model from Reform and Opening Up to New Era Thought  15(1):1-4 (View HERE)

B. 8th U.N. Forum on Business and Human Rights

  1. Flora Sapio, Reflections on the 8th U.N. Forum for Business and Human Rights 15(1):5-9 (View HERE)
  2. Larry Catá Backer, The Weak Underbelly of Business and Human Rights: Reflections on the 8th U.N. Forum on Business and Human Rights 15(1): 11-50 (View HERE)
  3. Larry Catá Backer, “ Peaches and Plums do not Speak, but they are so Attractive that a Path is Formed Below the trees” [桃李不言，下自成蹊]: China’s Belt and Road Initiative and the United Nations Guiding Principles for Business and Human Rights; Remarks Delivered at the 8th United Nations Forum for Business and Human Rights (26 November 2019) 15(1):51-64 (View HERE)

               

C. From the “Song of the Young Phoenix on the Tong Tree” to  “the Peng Bird Riding High and Flying for Nine Thousand Li”: Toward New Era Thought From Reform and Opening Up Through the Lens of Speeches by Xi Jinping (2018) and Xi Zhongxun (1986)

  1. Flora Sapio and Larry Catá Backer, Introduction : From the “Song of the Young Phoenix on the Tong Tree” to the “Peng Bird Riding High and Flying for Nine Thousand Li”: Toward New Era Thought From Reform and Opening Up 15(1):65-70 (View HERE)
  2. Xi Jinping, Speech at the Meeting Celebrating the Fortieth Anniversary of Reform and Opening Up (18 December 2018) Flora Sapio (translator and Annotator) 15(1):71-103 (View HERE)
  3. Xi Zhongxun, Speech at the Forum Commemorating the Sixty-Seventh Anniversary of the “May Fourth Movement” (3 May 1986) Flora Sapio (Translator) 15(1):105-111 (View HERE)
  4. Flora Sapio, Commentary on Xi Jinping, Speech at the Meeting Celebrating the 40th Anniversary of Reform and Opening Up 15(1):113-120 (View HERE)
  5. Larry Catá Backer, Toward New Era Thought: Reflections on Xi Jinping, Speech at the Meeting Celebrating the 40th Anniversary of Reform and Opening Up 15(1):121-144 (View HERE)

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