Machiavelli in Northeast Asia

Analyzing the multifaceted receptions of Machiavelli from early modernity to the present history of Northeast Asia, this book explores a better East-West dialogue through which Machiavelli's political philosophy can be appropriated properly in Northeast Asian practices.

Jun-Hyeok Kwak is Professor of Philosophy (Zhuhai) at Sun Yat-sen University, China.

Part I: General Overview. 1.Machiavelli and Northeast Asia. Part II: Three Imperative Issues in Northeast Asia. 2.Machiavelli's Republicanism. 3.Aristotle, Machiavelli, and Prudential Political Realism. 4.The Book of Lord Shang Compared with Machiavelli and Hobbes. Part III: Receptions of Machiavelli, West & East. 5.Machiavelli's Fortune Lines of Reception of his Works in Europe. 6.The Introduction of Machiavelli's Works and Thoughts into China. 7.Machiavelli and the Intellectuals of Modern Japan. Part IV: Reinterpreting Machiavelli in the Northeast Asian Context. 8.Machiavelli and Han Fei Zi - A Comparison. 9.The Prince between Confucianism and Machiavellianism: Inoue Kowashi on Statecraft and Political Morality. 10."Seek Harmony but not Uniformity"-Machiavelli's Political Thought in the Chinese Context