图书标签: 伊恩·布鲁玛 Fiction 英文书 欧洲小说 欧洲 lover china
发表于2024-12-23
The China Lover pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2024
In his enthralling new novel, Ian Buruma uses the life of the starlet Yamaguchi Yoshiko as a lens through which to understand the lure of erotic fantasies in the conquest of nations. The China Lover reveals the catastrophic results when theater and politics blend in a lethal manner.
In her earliest days Ri Koran a Japanese girl, born in Manchuria, who sang and acted in Japanese and Chinese was forced to keep her Japanese identity a secret, to become a Manchurian singer and movie star playing Chinese beauties who fell in love with brave Japanese empire builders. In U.S.-occupied Tokyo, she returned to the screen as Yamaguchi Yoshiko, starring in films approved by American censors and designed to promote American-style democracy.
Before long, she decided to reinvent herself yet again by moving to the United States. Three months after Japan and the United States signed a peace treaty in San Francisco, Yamaguchi rededicated herself to pursuing a career in American movies, this time as Shirley Yamaguchi, playing exotic Japanese beauties falling in love with American soldiers. But she was not just the subject of male fantasies on the cinema screen. She married the Japanese American sculptor Isamu Noguchi, who wanted her to be the perfect traditional Japanese woman. When her many roles, in life and in film, proved impossible to reconcile, Shirley left Noguchi, retired as an actress, and married a promising young Japanese diplomat.
At the outset of the 1970s, the life of Yamaguchi Yoshiko took another dramatic turn. As host of a Japanese television show for housewives, Yoshiko accepted an assignment in the Middle East, where she met Yassir Arafat and a prominent Palestinian terrorist. A member of her crew, affiliated with the Japanese Red Army, would return to commit a terrible crime while Yoshiko became a founding member of the Japanese- Palestinian Friendship Association, and ended her career as a politician in the right-wing ruling party of Japan.
In Burumas reimagining of the life of Yamaguchi Yoshiko, a Japanese torn among patriotism for her parents homeland, wordly ambition, and sympathy for the Chinese, she would reflect almost exactly the twists and turns in the history of modern Japan.
在巴黎莎士比亚书店买的,只因为它美丽的绿色封面!讲得是李香兰的故事,但实际看进去多少我自己也不清楚_(:з」∠)_
评分Asiaphilia and Millennium Actress
评分我喜欢这个小说的形式,不是对市面上已有的关于李香兰的传记材料的虚构化复制,而是用三个不同的叙述者来串起李香兰的三个阶段,同时指向一个核心的命题,往大了说,可以说是近代日本的主体性。但就小说来说,作为这个小说主角和最大根据的李香兰这个人物是相对薄弱的,我甚至觉得很扁平。以及不知道是不是布鲁玛的问题意识太强的缘故,里面所有的叙述者的发言,看上去像作为一个日本通的布鲁玛本人。
评分在巴黎莎士比亚书店买的,只因为它美丽的绿色封面!讲得是李香兰的故事,但实际看进去多少我自己也不清楚_(:з」∠)_
评分Asiaphilia and Millennium Actress
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The China Lover pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2024