有此江山有此楼:抗战时期中日围绕黄鹤楼的记忆之争与权力重构

This Tower in the Country:China and Japan are contention of Memory and Reconstruction of Power Around Yellow Crane Tower during the the War of Resistance Against Japan

江南三大名楼之一黄鹤楼,因历史机缘,不仅是一座城市的地标,更成为一个不断被阐释和改写的文本.王朝兴亡和名人造访,为这个文化文本不断注脚.抗战爆发后,拥有众多典籍资源的黄鹤楼被国民政府用作构建集体记忆和激发民族主义的场所.武汉陷落后,日本为实现长期占领,又对黄鹤楼构建起来的记忆标准进行消解,然而效果却不大明显.中日之间围绕黄鹤楼展开的记忆之争,显示了权力无孔不入的特点,揭示了记忆存在一种“操纵机制”.权力通过强化、消解甚至是创造出某种记忆来强化民众的集体记忆,从而推进民众对政权合法性的认同.

Yellow Crane Tower, as one of the three famous towers in south, for historical reasons, is not only a urban land-mark, but also a text that can be interpreted and rewritten. Dynastic alternation and celebrity interviews, are constantly footnotes to the text. After the war breaking out, national crisis became unprecedented magnitude seriously. With many cultural resources,Yellow Crane Tower is used by the national government as a place for collective memory and stimulate nationalism. After the fall of Wuhan, in order to long-term occupation, Japanese attempts to dispel the memory standards that Yellow Crane Tower builds up, but the effect is not obvious. Memory contention around Yellow Crane Tower Show that, power is everywhere, and memory can be manipulated. Through strengthening, digestion, even creation memory,power can Strengthen the collective memory, so as to promote public recognition of regime legitimacy.