Research Article
Pengchun Chang’s Contributions to the Drafting of the UDHR
1University of Exeter, Exeter, UK
2China University of Political Science and Law, Beijing, China
- *Corresponding Author:
- Sun Pinghua
Visiting Scholar to the University of Exeter (the U. K.)
PhD in Human Rights Law, Professor at China University of Political Science and Law, Beijing
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E-mail: fadaphsun@aliyun.com
Received Date: July 20, 2016; Accepted Date: September 02, 2016; Published Date: September 10, 2016
Citation: Pinghua S (2016) Pengchun Chang’s Contributions to the Drafting of the UDHR. J Civil Legal Sci 5:209. doi: 10.4172/2169-0170.1000209
Copyright: © 2016 Pinghua S. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Abstract
The Universal Declaration of human rights (UDHR) has turned out to be a truly remarkable instrument, serving as a landmark in the history of mankind. P.C. Chang, the chinese representative, participated in the leadership and the drafting work, and made an outstanding contribution in the drafting process: He defined the nature of the declaration accurately, successfully integrated confucianism into the declaration, solved many disputes relevant to human rights origins, made the declaration a rigorous structure, creatively broke the deadlocks and resolved conflicts, dominated the drafting process of the right to speak in the proposed mutual tolerance and harmonious social philosophy, and expounded china’s views on human rights to the world. These contributions were marked down in history, and his contributions were also the contributions of chinese civilization, national intelligence, and traditional culture.