The Logic of Change of the CPC’s Human Rights Discourse Since the Founding of the People’s Republic of China

Since the founding of the People’s Republic of China70 years ago,the human rights discourse of the Communist Party of China has been constantly updated.In the early years of the founding of the People’s Republic of China,the CPC spontaneously formed a collective discourse on human rights with the right to subsistence and self-determination as its core;in the 1980 s,in the process of reflection and refutation,the CPC paid more attention to individual rights,and gradually increased the sense of a human rights discourse with Chinese characteristics;since the 1990s,the CPC has combined the specific national conditions and the international environment to form a human rights discourse.The system of human rights discourse has been constructed in terms of the order of priority of human rights protection,path of human rights development,relationship between human rights and sovereignty,and development of the world human rights cause.Since the 18th National Congress of the CPC,the CPC has put forward the idea that"living a happy life is the primary human right"at home and the idea of building a Community with a Shared Future for Human Beings for the world,and the discourse system of human rights with Chinese characteristics has gradually been improved.The independent variable of the change of human rights discourse of the CPC is the specific national conditions at different stages and the recognition of national identity formed on this basis.The other variable is the international environment and external relations that China is facing.

On Confucious Human Rights Discourse

As to the contents of Confucian discourse of human rights there are four topics which are being or not-being,history,relationship and constructivism on Confucian-human right.According to the different criteria of being or not being on Confucian-human right there are three points:not being in ancient times,being in ancient times,not being originally and being later.There are three points too on relationship of Confucian-human right:exclusion,integration and conversion.what is sometimes overlooked on the history of Confucian-human right is eastern studies introduced to the west.The traditional Chinese thoughts had an important effect on western human right idea and normative text.Du Gangjian,a well-known expert on Chaoshan new Confucianism in construction of Confucian-human right,constructs a theory system of Confucian human rights by Confucius’ideas.Taken together,Confucian discourse of human rights is at the cross-section when China mingled with the western countries and the modern replaced the ancient.The commensurability of human rights is just made at this point.