Machiavelli has gained a new prominence in Western media due to the resurgence of Han Fei in recent official statements of the Chinese Communist Party.
Author(s): Jun-Hyeok Kwak
Series: Political Theories in East Asian Context
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2023
Language: English
Tags: Political science--East Asia--Philosophy
List of Contributors vii
Acknowledgments xi
PART I
General Overview 1
1 Introduction: Machiavelli and Northeast Asia 3
JUN-HYEOK KWAK
PART II
Three Imperative Issues in Northeast Asia 15
2 Machiavelli’s Republicanism 17
NATHAN TARCOV
3 Aristotle, Machiavelli, and Prudential Political Realism 26
LIU WEI
4 The Book of Lord Shang Compared with Machiavelli and Hobbes 43
MARKUS FISCHER
PART III
Receptions of Machiavelli: West and East 67
5 Machiavelli’s Fortune: Lines of Reception of His Works in Europe 69
GIOVANNI GIORGINI
6 The Introduction of Machiavelli’s Works and Thoughts into China 87
LIU XUNLIAN, LIU XUEHAO, AND CAO QIN
Contents
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7 Machiavelli and the Intellectuals of Modern Japan 105
KOICHIRO MATSUDA
PART IV
Reinterpreting Machiavelli in the Northeast Asian Context 121
8 Machiavelli and Han Fei Zi – A Comparison 123
GABRIELLA STANCHINA AND TONGDONG BAI
9 The Prince between Confucianism and Machiavellianism:
Inoue Kowashi on Statecraft and Political Morality 143
TAKASHI KIBE
10 “Seek Harmony but not Uniformity” – Machiavelli’s
Political Thought in the Chinese Context 160
DEMIN DUAN
Index of Names 176
Index of Terms 178
