Searching For The Lost Voices：A Research On The Life Of Soldiers

• Main Authors: Chu-YunFu, 傅竹雲
• Other Authors: Hsiu-Mei Chung
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2012
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/16487636182287296064

碩士 === 國立成功大學 === 台灣文學系碩博士在職專班 === 100 === The life of Mainlander servicemen in Taiwan has heterogeneity, especially; the life trajectory of Mainlander servicemen who first experienced pseudo retirement and then applied for real retirement between 1952 and 1960 has more particularity. The aim of this research is to investigate the encountered subsistent circumstances and experiences of these Mainlander servicemen risen from the ranks, and to track down the heterogeneous living networks of Mainlander veterans; through their birth-years, personal educations and experiences, and the different enrolling years, we described and discussed in depth their life images and situations after they went to Taiwan. In the past the Taiwan society indelibly thought the Mainlander veterans all get the protection of state apparatus, and can life-long receive the better-off veteran pension. In fact many of them are risen from the ranks, did not reside a day of military housing or the Veterans Homes for a lifetime, also even did not enjoyed the medical services for the glory veterans, and more did not get the munificent retired salary and the dependents subsidy and allowance. Not only this group of people is not vested interests, on the contrary, their rights and interests have been still sacrificed until now because of the national rough, bad, and old retirement system as well as the disarmament policy for coordinating and obtaining the American aids at that time. All of which leads their individual or families’ post-retirement lives into the predicaments, and even shifts them to the bottom of Taiwan society. In this paper, first we studied the identity distinction and the migration history differences of the Mainlander veterans who had three types of moving trajectories, and then, analyzed the process differences of their joining the army and their different living environments and experiences resulted from their collective military dependants' village living or places scattered living during the process of constructing their homes after going to Taiwan. Although Mainlander veterans all are called by the social populace “other provinces veteran”, but their trajectories of the life situations and career developments are quite different, which causes their living networks having the enormous differences. Because the policy of “the American-aid soldiers and officers retiring plan” was formed and put into practice, which makes these Mainlander veterans who are risen from ranks and whose ages are old when coming to Taiwan were affected by the double political strengths”. Meanwhile, they also accelerated their “real retirement” process and even their hard self-sustaining progress due to the bad “pseudo retirement system” performed. Furthermore, we interviewed three low-level military officers risen from the ranks in the 52nd Division or their wives. According to the oral results of the interviews and the documents found we reviewed the psychological journeys of their retiring and living processes of from being induced by the pseudo retirement system to being forced to really retire and finally to no choice but retiring with a self-sustaining hard life, and explored the blind spot of the compensation payments for Credentials of Soldiers Granting Land, and then, we showed in detail the different life images of these low-level officers, delved into their innermost without-saying but reflecting the times words, and reproduced this special historical memory section inscribed in the mighty current of the times.