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moreICCS WPS 33 After Diaspora:Constructing Identity and Subjectivity of The Ethnicity of Military Dependents’ Villages
Author/Speaker｜Bo-xun You
Publication Date｜2020-09
Keywords｜military dependents’ village, mainlanders, internal diaspora, national identity, autoethnography
Abstract
A “Military dependents’ village” is a unique social phenomenon found in Taiwan after WWII. It has developed cultural connotations that are not only urban texture but also a mental structure. Due to its defeat in the Chinese Civil War, the Kuomintang government retreated to Taiwan in 1949. A large number of military personnel and their families from various provinces of China were forced to come to Taiwan. This was the largest population migration since the Republic of China was established, and it also formed a special settlement of military dependents and landscape. When the government demolished the old buildings of dependents’ village and placed villagers in public housing, the demolition not only destroyed the material symbol of their identity, but also removed their living places, causing their emotional and psychological exile. As the third generation of a minority group who grew up in a dependent village, through artistic practice, I attempted to write my own autoethnography that has already disappeared in this place. Using the “dependents’ village” I grew up in as a starting point, I visited the related village map and discussed its sense of place, historicity and spiritual structure. Using sensory ethnography as a method of art praxis, I responded to and reflected upon the questions regarding “diaspora” in the history of the dependents’ village.
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Author's Bio:
Bo-xun You，Graduated from the Institute of Applied Arts, Chiao Tung University, and dedicated to visual design and cross-field art.
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