03916nam 2200745 450 991045637890332120200520144314.01-281-99166-X97866119916611-4426-7837-210.3138/9781442678378(CKB)2430000000001978(OCoLC)244768734(CaPaEBR)ebrary10219128(SSID)ssj0000305808(PQKBManifestationID)11247063(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000305808(PQKBWorkID)10294196(PQKB)11138185(CaBNvSL)thg00601069 (MiAaPQ)EBC3255221(MiAaPQ)EBC4671820(DE-B1597)464746(OCoLC)1013955330(OCoLC)944177783(DE-B1597)9781442678378(Au-PeEL)EBL4671820(CaPaEBR)ebr11257513(CaONFJC)MIL199166(OCoLC)958571704(EXLCZ)99243000000000197820160913h20052005 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrPersonal liberty and public good the introduction of John Stuart Mill to Japan and China /Douglas HowlandToronto, [Ontario] ;Buffalo, [New York] ;London, [England] :University of Toronto Press,2005.©20051 online resource (235 p.) Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-8020-9342-6 0-8020-9005-2 Includes bibliographical references and index.Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on Conventions -- Introduction -- 1. On Liberty and Its Historical Conditions of Possibility -- 2. Mill and His English Critics -- 3. Nakamura Keiu and the Public Limits of Liberty -- 4. Yan Fu and the Moral Prerequisites of Liberty -- 5. Personal Liberty and Public Virtue -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- IndexBlame for the putative failure of liberalism in late-nineteenth-century Japan and China has often been placed on an insufficient grasp of modernity among East Asian leaders or on their cultural commitments to traditional values. In Personal Liberty and Public Good, Douglas Howland refutes this view, turning to the central text of liberalism in that era: John Stuart Mill?s On Liberty.Howland offers absorbing analyses of the translations of the book into Japanese and Chinese, which at times reveal astonishing emendations. As with their political leaders, Mill?s Japanese and Chinese translators feared individual liberty could undermine the public good and standards for public behaviour, and so introduced their own moral values ? Christianity and Confucianism, respectively? into On Liberty, filtering its original meaning. Howland mirrors this mistrust of individual liberty in Asia with critiques of the work in England, which itself had trouble adopting liberalism.Personal Liberty and Public Good is a compelling addition to the corpus of writing on the work of John Stuart Mill. It will be of great interest to historians of political thought, liberalism, and translation, as well as scholars of East Asian studies.LibertyCommon goodPolitical scienceJapanPolitical science19th centuryPolitical scienceChinaHistory19th centuryElectronic books.Liberty.Common good.Political sciencePolitical sciencePolitical scienceHistory323.44Howland Douglas1955-849910MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910456378903321Personal liberty and public good2490442UNINA