{"product_id":"personal-liberty-and-public-good-the-introduction-of-john-stuart-mill-to-japan-and-china-paperback-softback-9781487526153","title":"Personal Liberty and Public Good; The Introduction of John Stuart Mill to Japan and China (Paperback \/ softback) 9781487526153","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003ePersonal Liberty and Public Good\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eThe Introduction of John Stuart Mill to Japan and China\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eDouglas R. Howland (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781487526153\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 30 March 2020\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e200 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.3 cm, 0.36 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eBlame 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 \u003ci\u003ePersonal Liberty and Public Good\u003c\/i\u003e, Douglas Howland refutes this view, turning to the central text of liberalism in that era: John Stuart Mill\u0026amp;#x2019;s \u003ci\u003eOn Liberty\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHowland 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\u0026amp;#x2019;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 \u003ci\u003eOn Liberty\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ePersonal Liberty and Public Good\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e1 On Liberty and Its Historical Conditions of Possibility \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Translation in Theory \u003cbr\u003e Translation Words and Lexical Fields \u003cbr\u003e  The Historical Conditions of Possibility \u003cbr\u003e  Individuality and Subjecthood \u003cbr\u003e Elite Education and the Ruling Class \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e2 Mill and His English Critics \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Self and Others \u003cbr\u003e The Individual as Ground of Liberty \u003cbr\u003e Negative and Positive Interpretations of Liberty \u003cbr\u003e Society and Morality as Ground of Liberty \u003cbr\u003e The Individual and the State \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e3 Nakamura Keiu and the Public Limits of Liberty \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Village Society and Government \u003cbr\u003e Christianity and the Personal Liberty of Conscience \u003cbr\u003e Free Trade \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 4 Yan Fu and the Moral Prerequisites of Liberty \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The Group and the Self \u003cbr\u003e Models of Private and Public from Chinese Antiquity \u003cbr\u003e Individuality as Moral Self-Cultivation \u003cbr\u003e The Boundaries of Authority: Mutual Encouragement and Local Administration \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e5 Personal Liberty and Public Virtue \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Mill's Encouragement of Virtue \u003cbr\u003e Public Virtue and the Priority of Common Interests \u003cbr\u003e The Japanese State and Its Subjects \u003cbr\u003e The Reconstruction of the Chinese People \u003cbr\u003e Conclusion \u003cbr\u003e Notes \u003cbr\u003e Bibiliography \u003cbr\u003e Index \u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52595743654168,"sku":"9781487526153","price":18.69,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/personal-liberty-and-public-good-the-introduction-of-john-stuart-mill-to-japan-and-china-paperback-softback-9781487526153","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}