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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

European incursions into Asia created Asian awareness of territorial sovereignty by its very violation. The bilateral treaties that Japan and China signed with European and American states in the nineteenth century made explicit the centrality of territory in the modern state form, for these treaties created a regime of extraterritoriality that exempted foreign residents from the jurisdiction of the local state. Only when China or Japan had secured its territorial jurisdiction could it assert a sovereign standing in the world order, and two processes were key: Japan and China had to consolidate their respective territories, lest foreign powers claim proximate footholds that could become security threats. And each needed to possess the legal and political organization that would render each state capable of imposing jurisdiction within its own territory.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface: Everything Diverges -- Introduction: Decency and Debasement -- Dreaming of Better Times: ''Repetition with a Difference'' and Community Policing in China -- Constructing Perry's ''Chinaman'' in the Context of Adorno and Benjamin -- Redemption and Consumption: Depicting Culture in the 1990s -- Making Time: Historic Preservation and the Space of Nationality -- Aesthetics and Chinese Marxism -- TheWorld Conception of Japanese Social Science: The Kōza Faction, theO¯ tsuka School, and the Uno School of Economics -- ''And TheyWould Start Again'': Women and Struggle in Korean Nationalist Literature -- Spring, Temporality, and History in Li Dazhao -- Spring -- The Probable Defeat: Preliminary Notes on the Chinese Cultural Revolution -- Interpreting Revolutionary Excess: The Naxalite Movement in India -- Marxism, Anti-Americanism, and Democracy in South Korea: An Examination of Nationalist Intellectual Discourse -- ''Who Am I?''—Questions of Voluntarism in the Paradigm of Socialist Alienation -- Contributors -- Index