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Author Howland, Douglas, 1955- author.

Title Personal liberty and public good : the introduction of John Stuart Mill to Japan and China / Douglas Howland
Published Toronto, Ont. : University of Toronto Press, 2005

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Description 1 online resource (vii, 222 pages)
Contents 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
Summary "Blame 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 an examination of the introduction in Japan and China of the seminal work on liberalism in that era: John Stuart Mill's On Liberty." "Howland offers critical 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 - Christian and Confucian, respectively - into On Liberty, filtering its original meaning. Howland reflects on this mistrust of individual liberty and the reception of Mill's work both in Asia and in England itself, where his liberal vision was greeted with considerable apprehension."--Jacket
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Mill, John Stuart, 1806-1873 -- Translations into Chinese -- History and criticism
Mill, John Stuart, 1806-1873 -- Translations into Japanese -- History and criticism
Mill, John Stuart, 1806-1873. On liberty.
SUBJECT Mill, John Stuart, 1806-1873 fast
Mill, John Stuart. On liberty. swd
Yan, Fu. swd
On liberty (Mill, John Stuart) fast
Subject Liberty.
Common good -- History -- 19th century
Freedom
freedom.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Civil Rights.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Human Rights.
PHILOSOPHY -- Political.
Common good
Liberty
Rezeption
Allmän ordning och säkerhet -- historia.
Frihet -- historia.
Japan
Genre/Form Electronic books
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781442678378
1442678372
128199166X
9781281991669