STORY: Global scholars gather to discuss human rights in ancient Chinese classics
SHOOTING TIME: Nov. 20, 2024
DATELINE: Nov. 21, 2024
LENGTH: 0:00:55
LOCATION: CHANGSHA, China
CATEGORY: CULTURE

SHOTLIST:
1. various of the conference
2. SOUNDBITE 1 (English): JORDAN MARTIN, Assistant professor, Yuelu Academy, Hunan University
3. SOUNDBITE 2 (English): MARY EVELYN TUCKERM, Senior lecturer and research scholar at Yale University

STORYLINE:

Scholars across the globe gathered in central China's Hunan Province for the International Academic Conference on the Ideas of Human Rights in Ancient Chinese Classics on Wednesday.

They explored the ideas of human rights on the basis of Chinese classics, and promoted exchanges and mutual learning among civilizations.

SOUNDBITE 1 (English): JORDAN MARTIN, Assistant professor, Yuelu Academy, Hunan University
"There's care for humans everywhere. It's not something that belongs to China or belongs to the West, or belongs to anywhere.
What we should be looking to do here is to establish some common ground."

SOUNDBITE 2 (English): MARY EVELYN TUCKERM, Senior lecturer and research scholar at Yale University
"We can't just be anthropocentric about the human. We need to be anthropocosmic, because this is what Chinese traditions offer in the early traditions.
China has a very ancient notion of what it is to become human in relationship to nature, but also in relationship to other humans. It's very important."

Xinhua News Agency correspondents reporting from Changsha, China.
(XHTV)