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# Making Tea, Making Japan: Cultural Nationalism in Practice

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    It's a brilliant work, and exceptionally well written
  

*by M***Y on Reviewed in the United States on September 26, 2015*

Kristin Surak’s Making Tea, Making Japan is one of the most transformative volumes I have read in some time, and deserves a reading beyond those who most obviously must engage it -- those who study Japanese society and those who are interested in nation formation. Surak’s analysis of the tea ceremony suggests something new about cultural power too, and therefore deserves an even broader audience.The tea ceremony has somehow survived radical transformations of Japanese national expression while at the same time ensuring a sense of continuity that phases of isolation, westernization, imperialism, postwar defeat/recovery, and democratic and peaceful internationalism would seem to deny. There is something about this tea ceremony that is remarkably resilient, on the one hand, and generative, on the other.It is resilient because it is reproduced over time. Yes, the experts and principal practitioners may shift from upper class men to housewives, and it may articulate very differently with various kinds of power, from militarists to commercial houses. It remains recognizably the same in practice over time, but it is more than resilient. It is generative.Tea ceremony practitioners are able to use this ceremony to express a kind of power that is not just about the manipulation of force or the distribution of resources. It expresses, in that Durkheimian sense, a kind of collective effervescence that is not only in the moment of ritual, but present in the anticipation of its performance, in the immaterial residues left on its artifacts, in the contemporary aura of its historical endurance.In a seminar at Brown University, Surak explained that resilience and generativity of practice in terms of the contradictions that the tea ceremony embodies. It is distinctively Japanese, and yet it is universal. It is remarkably dependent on certain concrete settings and material artifacts, and yet it transcends the material world. It is heavily scripted, but it depends on a measure of improvised interaction in which much is unpredictable. It is, in short, a performance dripping in feelings of authenticity and yet unreal given the world in which we live.It's a brilliant work, and exceptionally well written. It inspires.

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    Easily
  

*by C***T on Reviewed in the United States on February 17, 2015*

This was an interesting read that is very well written.. Easily understandable

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    Beyond expectations
  

*by I***N on Reviewed in the United States on June 29, 2015*

Highly recommended, and quite different than other English-language books about tea. Packed with interesting info about the cultural history of chanoyu, particularly over the past century.  Although the nationalism thesis is interesting and well laid-out, tea practitioners will find much history and culture here that's not available from orher sources.

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