The Age of Rights (Revised Edition)

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Publish Date: 2000-01-01
Features: This book is a research outcome of the project "Social Development of China and Protection of Citizen Rights." Over the past two and a half years, we, young and middle-aged scholars from the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, China University of Political Science and Law, and other institutions, have explored the issue of rights together out of shared academic interests and conducted social surveys in several cities and rural areas across the country. Based on this, we have described and explained the concepts of rights, mechanisms for protecting rights, fundamental rights, and rights of special subjects during China's social transformation, proposing several insights and suggestions. With the development of society, rights have increasingly become the core issue of China's legal theory and practice. We firmly believe that the gradual strengthening of citizens' awareness of rights in China, as well as the continuous improvement of the rights system and mechanisms for protecting rights in response, will be the most crucial factor in advancing the modernization of China's legal system.