Cross-Cultural Perception and World War IIAmerican Japanists of the 1940s and Their Images of Japan
Cross-Cultural Perception and World War IIAmerican Japanists of the 1940s and Their Images of Japan
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跨文化认知与二战20世纪40年代的美国日本主义者及其对日本的印象
DOI：
10.2307/2600292
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发表时间：
1980
影响因子：
2.6
通讯作者：
R. Minear
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作者：
R. Minear
在20世纪40年代的十年里，美国和日本是死敌，直到日本被完全征服后，美国才按照美国规定的条件和解。20世纪40年代也是美国日本研究发展的关键十年。本文考察了六名美国人——露丝·本尼迪克特、约翰·m·马基、埃德温·o·赖肖尔、查尔斯·b·法赫斯、约翰·f·恩布里和海伦·米尔斯——近十年来关于日本的写作，并试图记录他们对美国的看法和对日本的看法之间的关系。这篇文章表明，那些在国内（对美国，对民主）最忠诚的作家是那些最不能够同情日本的人，而那些对美国持某种批评态度的人能够呈现出一幅不那么扭曲的日本图景。因此，对作家的国内承诺的研究成为理解他们对外国现实的看法的重要指南。
The decade of the 1940s saw the United States and Japan bitter enemies, reconciled on terms dictated by the United States only after the total subjugation of Japan. The 1940s were also a crucial decade in the development of studies on Japan in the United States. This essay examines that decade's writing on Japan of six Americans—Ruth Benedict, John M. Maki, Edwin O. Reischauer, Charles B. Fahs, John F. Embree, and Helen Mears—and seeks to document the relation between their views of the United States and their views of Japan. The essay suggests that those writers most fully committed at home (to America, to democracy) were those least able to empathize with Japan, and that those somewhat critical of the United States were able to present a less distorted picture of Japan. Thus, the study of writers' domestic commitments emerges as one important guide to the understanding of their views of foreign reality.