Personal Liberty and Public Good: The Introduction of John Stuart Mill to Japan and China

by Douglas Howland

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1487526156
• ISBN13: 9781487526153
• Release Date: March 2020
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.77 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher