The Discourse Practice of the White Papers on Human Rights and Their Sociocultural Function: 1991-2021

2021 marks the 30;anniversary of China’s first white paper on human rights.Textual sorting and discourse analysis of the white papers over the years since then reveals how China’s expression of“human rights”demonstrates its endogenous power and sense of autonomy in human rights development.As a discourse practice,the white papers on human rights have gradually refined the rights to subsistence and development,expanded and expressed social rights,responded to the real needs of society,and charted the progress in the legal protection of human rights.The white paper on human rights is the official text for understanding China’s human rights cause,as it proceeds from a“practical”perspective to give full play to the social and cultural functions of subject identity,concept cultivation,and communication media and unleash the potential power of multiculturalism,thus laying a solid foundation for enhancing the discourse power of domestic and international human rights.