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.
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.
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...
评分承袭像汉娜阿伦特的《平庸之恶》等人的思考维度,该书也是从日本法西斯行动下层参与者的角度,去看待军国主义,法西斯行动。导论部分尤为精彩,作者提出了诸多重要问题,包括国家民族主义如何发展,国家民主主义如何成功或不成功地“普通”个体所接受,一个个体如何承认社会责...
评分【一年一度看樱花】 不多久,一年一度樱花盛开的季节就要到来。樱花在中、日两国都是著名的观赏花卉,在日本尤盛。每当樱花即将盛开之际,日本各地都会在樱树种植的道路两旁,用醒目的指示标记在地上划分好场地,届时供市民赏花之用。由于公共资源有限,使用全凭先来后到,在...
评分【一年一度看樱花】 不多久,一年一度樱花盛开的季节就要到来。樱花在中、日两国都是著名的观赏花卉,在日本尤盛。每当樱花即将盛开之际,日本各地都会在樱树种植的道路两旁,用醒目的指示标记在地上划分好场地,届时供市民赏花之用。由于公共资源有限,使用全凭先来后到,在...
受到广泛警告不要选老太太的课,不要跟老太太走太近…
评分不要为了任何美丽的理由去赴死(虽然我太喜欢帝国的美丽借口了,真的,太动人了,这种崇高让人热泪盈眶,宣传部门做的太棒了)
评分不要为了任何美丽的理由去赴死(虽然我太喜欢帝国的美丽借口了,真的,太动人了,这种崇高让人热泪盈眶,宣传部门做的太棒了)
评分民族主义实在是一个有趣的话题
评分不要为了任何美丽的理由去赴死(虽然我太喜欢帝国的美丽借口了,真的,太动人了,这种崇高让人热泪盈眶,宣传部门做的太棒了)
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