ABSTRACT
In the immediate post-June Fourth period the Chinese leadership quickly voiced concerns about the use-or as they preferred to describe it, abuse-of human rights slogans during the democracy movement. At a national conference on propaganda in July 1989, President Jiang Zemin remarked that since young people were attracted to the concept of human rights, it was of vital importance to promote a Marxist analysis of human rights to counteract any bourgeois influences. This chapter talks about China that is no longer dismissed human rights as a bourgeois slogan, but instead tried to portray itself as the true defender of human rights. In 1948, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the first international human rights legal document, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The Chinese government has consistently paid close attention to the question of human rights. Internationally, it has always affirmed and supported all the work and efforts done by the UN to protect human rights.
