John W. Dower is the Elting E. Morison Professor of History at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is a winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for War Without Mercy.
Drawing on a vast range of Japanese sources and illustrated with dozens of astonishing documentary photographs, Embracing Defeat is the fullest and most important history of the more than six years of American occupation, which affected every level of Japanese society, often in ways neither side could anticipate. Dower, whom Stephen E. Ambrose has called "America's foremost historian of the Second World War in the Pacific," gives us the rich and turbulent interplay between West and East, the victor and the vanquished, in a way never before attempted, from top-level manipulations concerning the fate of Emperor Hirohito to the hopes and fears of men and women in every walk of life. Already regarded as the benchmark in its field, Embracing Defeat is a work of colossal scholarship and history of the very first order.
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the 1999 National Book Award for Nonfiction, finalist for the Lionel Gelber Prize and the Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize, Embracing Defeat is John W. Dower's brilliant examination of Japan in the immediate, shattering aftermath of World War II.
Ramifications of the American Occupation in Japan The American occupation over Japan after the World War II followed Japan’s unconditional surrender in 1945. It was the first occupation of a post-war enemy territory that aimed to bring modern democracy in...
评分一衣带水的邻邦,承继了中华文化却又独立发展的日本历史,对于留学东京的我总是有这挥之不去的魅力。说起日本历史,每个中国人都想起日本侵华战争对我们造成的伤害,我们应当去铭记那段历史,同时也应该了解当时及被美军单独占领以后的日本是怎样的状态。这本书在很多方面给了...
评分拥抱战败,抱拥败战。 不是风雨独立路。不是摆脱占领者的征服,不是将占领者扫出岛国,而是心甘情愿幽闭在美国征服者近乎肉欲的拥抱中,反思,想象,期待,等待一个崭新明天。 不是经济腾飞路。举世瞩目的,乃是战败者的审判,日本社会文化的变质,天皇制的去留,民...
评分都说历史是厚重的。初时的理解是,因为历史承载了太多的事中人和人中事,现世的人和事在历史的车辙下会被碾压,尘埃微粒而已。 读了《拥抱战败》,我似乎读动了这份“厚重”,因为他包含了太多的丑陋和不堪。这份“厚重”推不动,它需要各色人等来演绎统治阶层编写好的的历史剧...
评分鄙视下学校图书馆 居然把封面都扔了 生活:物质贫乏 饥荒 美国援助 食物不足 大规模黑市 民用化再生产 复员军人倒卖物资 官僚和商人贪污战备物资 文化:粕取文化 烧酒 虚脱 性 潘潘 民间横向西化 堕落 绝望 复兴宣传 “隐形的”新闻审查 “核爆”受害者 复员军人之殇 “一亿总...
“大多数日本人面对欺骗太弱智,面对压迫又太没种“,所以被东条等人骗了的日本人”应该为自己的愚蠢承担责任“;日本军人太容易堕入残暴可能是由于”道德和教育的基本缺陷——甚至整个民族信仰核心的某段空白“;可惜战后民间的自省因韩战的爆发被美军的审查机构压制未成气候。现在再看中国的牛奶疫苗,韩国的女星自杀,其实都没强到哪儿去。——都是某种程度对他者的残暴,都被全民迅速地消化掉了。
评分对多种史料的收集始终是Dower书一大特色,读来耳目一新。但他没有给出战后日本人为何能广泛接受美国在政治、经济、意识形态方面的领导的根源。另外《金阁寺》中也有讨论战后对美心态的部分,很微妙。
评分在很多地方,作者用了前现代的权力关系隐喻去阐释事件,大概有误导人的嫌疑。而写到宪法第九条的来历时,作者将各说法中很关键的一个——“币原说”斥为是“老人常见的错误记忆”,两句话就带过,作者这种做法让人觉得不是很可靠。不过总体而言,读这本书还是挺有收获的。
评分Recommended by Professor Kim
评分这本书梳理史料的能力牛的吓人。好厉害
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