Historic Achievement of a Common Standard Pengchun Chang and the Uni
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Historic Achievement of a Common Standard Pengchun Chang and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Historic Achievement of a Common Standard
Pinghua Sun
Historic Achievement of a Common Standard Pengchun Chang and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Sponsored by Chinese Fund for the Humanities and Social Sciences (本书获中华社会科学基金资助)
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Pinghua Sun School of Foreign Languages China University of Political Science and Law Beijing China
Sponsored by Chinese Fund for the Humanities and Social Sciences (本书获中华社会科学 基金资助) ISBN 978-981-10-8368-6 ISBN 978-981-10-8370-9 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-8370-9
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Foreword I
Picture 1 Professor Mary Glendon at Harvard Law School on October 1, 2014
With this study of the pivotal role of the remarkable diplomat Pengchun Chang in the creation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Prof. Pinghua Sun fills a major gap in the Declaration’s history. In addition, by lifting up Chang’s understanding of the nature of the UDHR as a “common standard,” he makes an important contribution to the debate over whether there can really be universal rights in a politically and culturally diverse world (Picture 1).
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Foreword I
The question of whether there are rights that belong to everyone on earth simply by virtue of being human, and if so, what those rights may be, has haunted the ambitious post-World War II human rights project from its inception. No sooner did the newly founded United Nations announce its plan for an “intern
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