Ohnuki-Tierney, Emiko. <br/><br/>
Flowers That Kill :  Communicative Opacity in Political Spaces. 

 - 1st ed. 
 - 1 online resource (297 pages) 
<br/><br/>Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Opacity, Misrecognition, and Other Complexities of Symbolic Communication -- Part I: Sources of Communicative Opacity: Many Meanings, One Meaning, the Aesthetic -- 1. Japanese Cherry Blossoms: From the Beauty of Life to the Sublimity of Sacrificial Death -- 2. European Roses: From "Bread and Roses" to the Aestheticization of Murderers -- 3. The Subversive Monkey in Japanese Culture: From Scapegoat to Clown -- 4. Rice and the Japanese Collective Self: Purity by Exclusion -- Part II: Collective Identities and Their Symbolic Expression -- 5. The Collective Self and Cultural/Political Nationalisms: Cross-Cultural Perspectives -- Part III: (Non-)Externalization: Religious and Political Authority/P ower -- 6. The Invisible and Inaudible Japanese Emperor -- 7. (Non-)Externalization of Religious and Political Authority/Power: A Cross-Cultural Perspective -- Afterword -- Notes -- References -- Index. 
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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780804795944 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Symbolism in politics -- Japan -- History.<br/>Symbolism in politics -- Europe -- History.<br/>Symbolism in communication -- Japan -- History.<br/>Symbolism in communication -- Europe -- History.<br/>Flowers -- Symbolic aspects -- Japan -- History.<br/>Flowers -- Symbolic aspects -- Europe -- History.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>JC347 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>320.9401/4