Remembering China from Taiwan: Divided Families and Bittersweet Reunions after the Chinese Civil War
ISBN: 9789882208971
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Hong Kong University Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: History;

When the Nationalists lost China in 1949, many of them left behind their families as they retreated to Taiwan. A half century later, through democratic elections, they lost con trol over Taiwan as well and began looking to a new and powerful China, where their relatives had grown rich, for a sense of identity and eco nomic support, thus laying the groundwork for the growing integration between Taiwan and China. As exchanges across the Taiwan Strait increased, many separated families finally met after years of dreaming about each other in hope and in sorrow, through many eras and disasters. But their reunions were often pain ful and freshly transformative as new realities were encountered. This book draws on oral his tories with several generations of Kuomintang loyalists in Taiwan and documents their strug gles with family and friends nearby as well as distant relatives in the mainland.


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