Liberal Rights and Political Culture by Zhenghuan Zhou - 9780415882491

Liberal Rights and Political CultureEnvisioning Democracy in China\nAuthor(s): Zhenghuan Zhou\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780415882491, 978-0415882491\nSynopsis\nThis book argues that the liberal concept of rights presupposes and is grounded in an individualistic culture or shared way of relating, and that this particular shared way of relating emerged only in the wake of the Reformation in the modern West.