Contributors

Acknowledgments

Introduction
William Shaw

Part One: The Late-Nineteenth Century

1. Korean Human-Rights Consciousness in an Era of Transition: A Survey of Late-Nineteenth-Century Developments
Vipan Chandra

2. Korea Before Rights
William Shaw

Part Two: Japanese Colonial Rule

3. Between Class and Nation: The Equalization Society of the 1920s
William Shaw

4. Nationalism and Human-Rights Thought in Korea under Colonial Rule
Michael Robinson

Part Three: The Postwar Period

5. Human Rights in South Korea, 1945-1953
Gregory Henderson

6. U.S. Foreign Policy and Human Rights in South Korea
Jerome A. Cohen and Edward J. Baker

7. The 1987 Constitutional Reforms in South Korea: Electoral Processes and Judicial Independence
James M. West and Edward J. Baker

8. U.S. Human Rights Objectives and Korean Realities
Donald MacDonald

Epilogue--Comparative Perspectives on Human Rights in Korea
Lawrence W. Beer

Notes

Supplementary Reading List

Indexes