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 st...
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.
作者简介
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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 Contempora...
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.
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 othe...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。(展开)
还记得那座神社的展览馆大厅里悬挂的巨幅和歌：「敷島の大和心を人問はば朝日に匂ふ山桜花」「ますらをの悲しき命つみかさねつみかさねまもる大和島根を」「君がため世のため何か惜しからむすててかひある命なりせば」...
这本书提供了对诗句中日式美学的一种更加普世的注解：浪漫与毁灭是一体两面。在时代、国家或个人的幻梦破灭时，这恰好是所有失落者甜蜜却可疑的借口。在这个层面上，或许大多数人在生命中的某一刻都曾体会...还记得那座神社的展览馆大厅里悬挂的巨幅和歌：「敷島の大和心を人問はば朝日に匂ふ山桜花」「ますらをの悲しき命つみかさねつみかさねまもる大和島根を」「君がため世のため何か惜しからむすててかひある命なりせば」...
这本书提供了对诗句中日式美学的一种更加普世的注解：浪漫与毁灭是一体两面。在时代、国家或个人的幻梦破灭时，这恰好是所有失落者甜蜜却可疑的借口。在这个层面上，或许大多数人在生命中的某一刻都曾体会过书中特攻队队员"zwei seelen wohnen auch in mein herz"的挣扎。(展开)
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2 有用 真猪奶茶 2017-03-11 00:32:09
受到广泛警告不要选老太太的课，不要跟老太太走太近…
1 有用 阿纳瑞斯的墙 2020-04-22 05:57:12
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 othe... 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。 (展开)
0 有用 小驿 2019-03-12 02:23:11
民族主义实在是一个有趣的话题
0 有用 amanitasoup 2020-01-19 19:52:21
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）
0 有用 geworfenheit 2021-04-17 13:06:15
还记得那座神社的展览馆大厅里悬挂的巨幅和歌：「敷島の大和心を人問はば朝日に匂ふ山桜花」「ますらをの悲しき命つみかさねつみかさねまもる大和島根を」「君がため世のため何か惜しからむすててかひある命なりせば」... 这本书提供了对诗句中日式美学的一种更加普世的注解：浪漫与毁灭是一体两面。在时代、国家或个人的幻梦破灭时，这恰好是所有失落者甜蜜却可疑的借口。在这个层面上，或许大多数人在生命中的某一刻都曾体会... 还记得那座神社的展览馆大厅里悬挂的巨幅和歌：「敷島の大和心を人問はば朝日に匂ふ山桜花」「ますらをの悲しき命つみかさねつみかさねまもる大和島根を」「君がため世のため何か惜しからむすててかひある命なりせば」... 这本书提供了对诗句中日式美学的一种更加普世的注解：浪漫与毁灭是一体两面。在时代、国家或个人的幻梦破灭时，这恰好是所有失落者甜蜜却可疑的借口。在这个层面上，或许大多数人在生命中的某一刻都曾体会过书中特攻队队员"zwei seelen wohnen auch in mein herz"的挣扎。 (展开)