After the event: Human rights and their future in China

by Susan Whitfield (Editor)

This collection of essays brings together some of the leading scholars in the field of Chinese human rights to discuss various aspects of China's record and to speculate on what the future might hold.

128 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 1991

About the author

Susan Whitfield is an English historian and librarian who works at the British Library in London, England. She obtained a PhD in historiography from the School of Oriental and African Studies in London, and now specialises in the social and intellectual history of the Tang Dynasty, and the history of the Silk Road.

She is currently director of the International Dunhuang Project, and in this capacity is involved in research and cataloguing of Central Asian manuscripts at the British Library. She has a particular interest in identifying forged manuscripts from Dunhuang.