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Personal Liberty and Public Good - The Introduction of John Stuart Mill to Japan and China (Paperback)
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Personal Liberty and Public Good - The Introduction of John Stuart Mill to Japan and China (Paperback)
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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 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.
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