Ian Buruma is the Luce Professor of Democracy, Human Rights, and Journalism at Bard College. His previous books include The China Lover, Murder in Amsterdam, Occidentalism, God's Dust, Behind the Mask, The Wages of Guilt, Bad Elements, and Taming the Gods.
发表于2024-05-07
Year Zero 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书
伊恩·布鲁玛(Ian Buruma)的《零年:1945》的中译本来得正是时候。今天评价国际冲突时倾向于诉诸武力的年轻人,通常不明白战争为何物。布鲁玛选择了1945年这个战争结束的欢腾年份,通过亲历者的眼睛和回忆,带我们回到战争的年代,体验当时的人心百味。庆祝胜利的大氛围中,...
评分历史的暧昧角落 许知远 一 大约十一年前,在香港的一家书店,我随手捡起一本《传教士与浪荡子》(The Missionary and the Libertine),它归属于“亚洲兴趣”(Asian Interest)一栏。 彼时的香港,殖民地的气息正在散去,但仍能轻易感受得到。在湾仔的六国酒店、在银行家...
评分写这段话的时候,本人刚刚看了28页。 我觉得《零年》这本书,填补了一个国内的视角空白。尤其是关注1949年新旧秩序交替岁月的那段历史,因为意识形态的原因,中国大陆封闭、保守的政策,导致我们的视角在很长时间内与政府的表述角度高度统一,无论是主动还是被迫,还是无意识...
评分关于1945,人们惯常聚焦于成王败寇的战争结果和战后美苏势力范围的划分,一将功成万骨枯视角下,众多战后遗留症都成了无足轻重的调味品。本书作者则从这些易忽略的角落出发,给我们观察二战后的世界,提供了一个全新视角。丰富庞博的时事资料和众多当事人的现场演绎,使其成为...
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A marvelous global history of the pivotal year 1945 as a new world emerged from the ruins of World War II
Year Zero is a landmark reckoning with the great drama that ensued after war came to an end in 1945. One world had ended and a new, uncertain one was beginning. Regime change had come on a global scale: across Asia (including China, Korea, Indochina, and the Philippines, and of course Japan) and all of continental Europe. Out of the often vicious power struggles that ensued emerged the modern world as we know it.
In human terms, the scale of transformation is almost impossible to imagine. Great cities around the world lay in ruins, their populations decimated, displaced, starving. Harsh revenge was meted out on a wide scale, and the ground was laid for much horror to come. At the same time, in the wake of unspeakable loss, the euphoria of the liberated was extraordinary, and the revelry unprecedented. The postwar years gave rise to the European welfare state, the United Nations, decolonization, Japanese pacifism, and the European Union. Social, cultural, and political “reeducation” was imposed on vanquished by victors on a scale that also had no historical precedent. Much that was done was ill advised, but in hindsight, as Ian Buruma shows us, these efforts were in fact relatively enlightened, humane, and effective.
A poignant grace note throughout this history is Buruma’s own father’s story. Seized by the Nazis during the occupation of Holland, he spent much of the war in Berlin as a laborer, and by war’s end was literally hiding in the rubble of a flattened city, having barely managed to survive starvation rations, Allied bombing, and Soviet shock troops when the end came. His journey home and attempted reentry into “normalcy” stand in many ways for his generation’s experience.
A work of enormous range and stirring human drama, conjuring both the Asian and European theaters with equal fluency, Year Zero is a book that Ian Buruma is perhaps uniquely positioned to write. It is surely his masterpiece
It's inevitable that Buruma also makes some wrong interpretations of the past here.
评分历史有这种 narrative 才完整。
评分It's inevitable that Buruma also makes some wrong interpretations of the past here.
评分讲1945年的一本书,了解一下那段历史
评分Total destruction means total reconstruction - hopeful, inspiring yet sad in a way, What I miss is the technology change in year zero.
Year Zero 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书