Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney is the William F. Vilas Research Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is the author of a number of books in English and Japanese, most recently Rice as Self: Japanese Identities through Time; The Monkey as Mirror: Symbolic Transformations in Japanese History and Ritual; and Illness and Culture in Contemporary Japan.
Why did almost one thousand highly educated "student scholars" volunteer to serve in Japan's "tokkotai" (kamikaze) operations near the end of World War II, even though Japan was losing the war? Did they embody the imperial ideology both in thought and in action? In this study of the role of symbolism and aesthetics in totalitarian ideology, Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney shows how the state manipulated the time-honoured Japanese symbol of the cherry blossom to convince people that it was their honour to "die like beautiful falling cherry petals" for the emperor. Drawing on diaries never before published in English, Ohnuki-Tierney describes these young men's agonies and even defiance against the imperial ideology. Passionately devoted to cosmopolitan intellectual traditions, the pilots saw the cherry blossom not in militaristic terms, but as a symbol of the painful beauty and unresolved ambiguities of their tragically brief lives. Using Japan as an example, the author breaks new ground in the understanding of symbolic communication, nationalism and totalitarian ideologies and their execution.
这本书历时5天读完,书是好书但总感觉可以更近一步。先说缺点再说优点最后写一点感悟。 这本书的缺点翻翻评论区就一目了然了,总的来说就是选题好取材一般论述不够精彩。虽然本人没有受过人类学的专业训练但是本书可以感觉到严重的套格式的感觉。框架的借用当然可以让作者对于...
评分老婆買了這本《被扭曲的櫻花》一段時間了,瞧她沒要看的意思,就拿來翻看。大戰期間的人民到底是怎麼看待戰爭,本身也是個有趣而龐大的主題,特別是一般被認為是發動戰爭的元凶的軸心三國。先說看起來很重要但其實常被忽略的義大利,法西斯黨徒是很開心地想要分杯羹,但人民卻...
评分每次从人类历史这一宏大叙事的视角来看个体的人时,总令人感慨。泪点低如我,在看《神风特攻队、樱花与民族主义》时,不禁鼻头发酸。在许多人印象中一群自愿执行自杀性攻击的士兵们,其背后也有着如此的复杂且矛盾的情感。其中当然不乏被天皇制军国主义成功洗脑的士兵,他们心...
评分由于版权的缘故,读书笔记不能粘贴原文,很想分享的几段材料就不贴了。本书有几个方面很在意,也有共鸣,支持和同意作者的一些看法,以及虽然我觉得作者只是从学生兵的角度解读了文本和象征,不能够代表广大的市民阶层,底层人民,狂热的军人等复杂多样的群体。但她做到了对象...
评分民族主义实在是一个有趣的话题
评分民族主义实在是一个有趣的话题
评分一口气读完,写的非常流畅,看的很舒服。相比起樱花作为符号是如何被动用为政治意识形态并潜移默化地和传统美学相媾和,她更有力的论证还是文化不是一个边界分明的、本质的、local的实在体。敢死队年轻飞行员们的读书清单真的相当震撼。"This book, I hope, will serve not simply as a requiem for the pilots and countless other war victims, Japanese and non-Japanese, but as a reminder that such tragedies should never be repeated." 再看到樱花,尤其是神社面前的樱花,应该要想起这些同龄人字字泣血的心。
评分受到广泛警告不要选老太太的课,不要跟老太太走太近…
评分民族主义实在是一个有趣的话题
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