Chinese Contributions to International Discourse of Human Rights

Pinghua Sun, a Professor at China University of Political Science and Law (CUPL). He earned a Ph.D. in Human Rights Law at CUPL (the first Doctor of Human Rights Law in China), M.A. at the University of Warwick and M.A. at Beijing Normal University. He was a visiting scholar at the School of Law, University of Exeter, where he ran a postgraduate course “Human Rights in China” (LAWM706). He also serves as a peer reviewer of the National Social Science Fund. He has published extensively in the areas of human rights law, applied linguistics, curriculum and pedagogy. In recent years he has been invited to deliver lectures or speeches at Oxford University (UK), Purdue University (US), the University of Bologna (Italy), Albany Law  School (US), and dozens of universities in China. He presided over three projects of the National Social Science Fund, and two of his China Academic Translation Projects, including 1)Human Rights Protection System in China (Springer 2014) and2)Historic Achievement of a Common Standard (Springer 2018), sponsored by the Chinese Fund for Humanities and Social Sciences. His Chinese works include 1)The Study of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (Peking University Press 2012), winning the second prize of the 13th Excellent Achievement of Philosophy and Social Sciences of Beijing Municipality in 2014; 2)Pengchun Chang: A Crucial Architect of the International Human Rights System (Social Sciences Academic Press 2017), selected into “National Achievements Library of Philosophy and Social Sciences” in 2016.

Chapter 1  UDHR: Historic Cross-cultural Heritage as a Common Standard for Human Rights.- Chapter 2 P. C. Chang’s Concept of Human Dignity for the UDHR.- Chapter 3 Pengchun Chang’s Contributions to Internaitonal Human Rights in Global Governance.- Chapter 4 Chinese Discourse of Human Rights in Global Governance.-  Chapter 5 Fundamental Principles for Achieving International Human-rights Standards in China.- Chapter 6 Human Rights Education in the Chinese Context.- Chapter 7 China’s Strategies towards Punta del Este Declaration.