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Historical / Cultural / Social
Introduction
Senior Veterans
According to the Definition of VAC, veterans who were born
before 1934/12/31, and had already enlisted in the army in
Mainland China. The group has a population of 271,495, the
statistics of 2009/12.
Historical Perspective
The ROC Government relocated to
Taiwan after the Chinese Civil War in
1949; meanwhile, the movement of
millions of people during the great
migration to Taiwan, and the largest
was a group of the military and
dependents.
The great migration in 1949
Mainland China
Taiwan1.21 million people
930,000
270,000
1,210,000
Military & Dependents
Others Tatal
The population of the great
migration in 1949
Military & Dependents Others Tatal
Cultural Perspective
1. They came from different provinces
of Mainland China.
2. They spoke in diverse accents by
their own dialects and eating habits
were quite different.
3. The local Taiwanese called them
the “Mainlanders” .
The great cultural integration from 1949
Mainland China Taiwan
Social Perspective
1. In the general impression, the senior veteran is a special group of Taiwanese society.
2. Most of them were students or farmers with genuine before they were forced to took part in the Chinese Civil
War.
3. They were lacking of attention and better treatment during their early years in the army.
4. Because of the age or complex reasons, most of them left the military with receiving quite a small amount of
pension then entered the local Taiwanese community one after another.
5. The majority of bachelors got married with local Taiwanese wives.
6. Some other singles went in the company of building illegal houses to live which made of the iron, wood and
other simple materials throughout the city.
The new social changing after 1949
Mainlanders Local Taiwanese
The trend of social resource19492010
The value of senior veterans’ culture during the social change
Main Discussion
The social shift and be neglected in new Taiwanese society
1949 2010
The Mainlander Government
The senior veteran group
The local Taiwanese
( Farmers, Laborers, Merchants )
The Capitalist
The middle class
The senior veteran group
Esta
teHigh
Low
332,053 318,816 306,866 295,265 283,225 271,495 270,500
End of 2004 End of 2005 End of 2006 End of 2007 End of 2008 End of 2009 Jan. 2010
The population of senior veterans (65 years & over)
More than 10,000/year decreasing
First-hand historical experience of senior veterans
1. History is an important and vivid reflection for the human development, and senior veterans alive in Taiwan now
are indeed the only live-history of the contemporary world.
2. New generations of Taiwanese understand that it was cruel and despairing to born in a war era from realizing
senior veterans’ sad memory.
3. The most authentic teaching material of the society by the change from had a temporary refuge first to finally
settle in Taiwan.
4. How to deal with the plight, help each other, and cherish the friendship between their fellows from their simple
living attitude and philanthropy.
Second Sino-Japanese War
1937~1945
Pacific War
1941~1945
Chinese Civil War
1945~1949
White Terror
1945~1987
The 2nd Party alternation
2008/05/20
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Mainland China Taiwan
The 1st Party alternation
2000/05/20
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Direct Presidential Election
1996/03/23Th
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Unsung heroes who quietly constructed the initial stage of Taiwan
1. In the early days of Taiwanese social development, the Government needed a large numbers of manual labors to
invest in many major public construction projects while most of local Taiwanese residents usually engaged in
farming for their livelihood.
2. The Government drafted many of veterans who were single or just could work as the manual labor again to
engage in these projects throughout Taiwan.
3. Taiwanese complete mainly major infrastructures now actually were established by their great contribution.
4. They paid their loyalty and contribution whole their life much more than obtained the respect as the feedback.
Zeng-Wun Dam,
1967.10.31~1973.10.31
•To supply the irrigation and general living water for
the main farmland and both for power generation of
the southern Taiwan.
•Mobilized more than 3000 senior veterans
•The catchment area is 481km2
•Total storage capacity: 608.317 million cubic meters
Central Cross-Island Highway,
1956.7.7~1960.5.9
•It’s the first highway through the rugged central
mountains and connected the eastern and the western
Taiwan.
•Mobilized more than 10,000 senior veterans
•The length is190.830km
Integrate the foreign culture into the local culture
1. The senior veteran’s was a kind of foreign culture for local Taiwanese residents.
2. Taiwan has indeed become the new homeland for these senior veterans after passing by more than half a century
of cultural communication.
3. Many senior veterans married local women and have their descendants.
4. Most of locals and mainlanders live together in common communities, and have a peaceful fusion with their
lives.
5. A part of them who have higher educational level became teachers in schools under the governmental assistance
and created their new career, and furthermore took the heavy responsibility of popularizing the national
education throughout Taiwan during the most difficult period.
6. The so-called foreign culture has completely integrated into the local culture and already become a new one that
is full of new Taiwanese characters.
Relative disadvantaged under the capitalist & political manipulation
1. Senior veterans played the role of the core for Taiwanese social stability in the past half-century.
2. It has tended to over-utilitarianism as the main social value of Taiwanese society during recent decades.
3. Through some politicians adopted abominable and extreme manipulations and radically aroused many locals’
exclusion of senior veterans’ original culture in the process of Taiwanese democratic progress and development.
4. The Veterans Hospital is in a different form as their regular meeting place for many senior veterans nowadays.
Conclusion
1.To preserve and continue the senior veteran’s culture in
order to reduce the defect of generation gap for overall
Taiwanese culture.
2.The integration of ethnic and cultural and the model of
selfless social values.
3.The improvement of Veterans Affairs commission and positive
policies.
Veterans Arts and Friendship Development Centre
The cultural resource of Taiwanese society
Preservation / Continuity / Popularization
Intentions in the further work with the project
It’s a concept of continuity and sustainability.
To infuse the senior veteran’s cultural resource into the unoccupied public buildings.
To reuse the pre-existing building and reviving the pre-existing culture both.
Veterans Arts and Friendship Development Centre
To remodel the unoccupied public building for reviving the pre-existing culture
From “re-” to “pre-”