Preface -- Introduction: An Overview -- Human Rights and the Establishment of Nationwide Control -- Defining Human Rights in the People’s Republic of China -- Building a Network of Controls: A Chronological Outline -- The PRC System from 1949 to 1984 -- Law: A Tool of Power -- Human Rights and the Chinese Political System -- The Economy: An Object of Experimentation -- Ideology, Reality, and Human Rights -- The Victim Groups -- Counterrevolutionaries -- Victims by Economic Category: Farmers, Businesspeople, and Workers -- Intellectuals and “Democratic Elements”: A Distmsted Underclass -- Red Guards and Political Dissidents (I): Tools of Violence and Power Struggle -- Red Guards and Political Dissidents (II): Victims Beyond a Generation -- Factions -- Women -- Non-Chinese Nationalities and Religious Communities -- Conclusion -- Let the Record Speak for Itself -- A Statistical Analysis of Judicial Practice and the Human Rights Condition in the People’s Republic of China -- A 1979 Chinese Declaration of Human Rights
