Exporting Virtue?

Pitman B. Potter is Professor of Law Emeritus at the Peter A. Allard School of Law at the University of British Columbia. He has published many books, including Assessing Treaty Performance in China: Trade and Human Rights and China's Legal System, and has written more than a hundred articles and essays. He is also the co-editor, with Ljiljana Biuković, of Local Engagement with International Economic Law and Human Rights.

Exporting Virtue is a meticulously researched and forcefully argued indictment of faux human rights activism that "seems mainly to be an exercise in justifying authoritarianism, virtue claims notwithstanding."- Scott Costen (The Sidebar) This book is a sound corrective to the often-heard but untenable claims by communist dictators in general that economic, social and cultural rights have precedence over civil and political ones. - Alex Dessein, King's College London (Europe-Asia Studies Journal)

• Introduction1 Human Rights in China Past and Present: From Confucian Governance to Regime-led Development2 China's Challenge to International Human Rights Standards: From Qualified Acceptance to Active Revision3 Case Study: Controlling Political Expression4 China's International Economic Relations: Coordination with Human Rights Orthodoxy5 Case Studies: Coordinating Human Rights and Trade Policy in Labour Relations and Environmental ProtectionConclusion Notes; Authorities Cited; Index