Subsistence, poverty alleviation and right to development: between discourse and practice

Wim Muller*

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Abstract

Subsistence, poverty alleviation and the right to development are international human rights, but also have an ideological and legitimizing meaning for the Communist Party of China. The achievements of the People’s Republic of China in these fields are genuinely impressive. However, political and ideological constraints make it difficult to get an accurate sense of what exactly it has achieved. In addition, the Chinese government has a tendency to conflate developmental and (human) rights discourses, favoring the more general nature of the former at the expense of some essential features of the latter. This chapter takes a discursive approach to set out how these rights are to be understood in human rights terms on the one hand, and how they are used in the PRC’s discourse on the other. In addition, it provides some essential points which students of these rights in China should bear in mind
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationHandbook on Human Rights in China
EditorsSarah Biddulph, Joshua Rosenzweig
PublisherEdward Elgar Publishing
Chapter7
Pages120-142
Number of pages23
ISBN (Electronic)978-17-8643-368-8
ISBN (Print)978-17-8643-367-1
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 28 Jun 2019

Publication series

SeriesHandbooks of Research on Contemporary China series

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