Hero Production: Image Building of Anti-Communist Martyrs in Taiwan

• Main Authors: Wang, Pei-Jung, 王珮蓉
• Other Authors: Wang, Liang-Ching
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2014
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/m2ys34

碩士 === 國立暨南國際大學 === 歷史學系 === 102 === After the partition of China, anti-communist and retake the mainland became ROC government 's most important national policy. While the government strongly propagating anti-communist and retake, the anti-communist martyrs escaped from Mainland became the best tool for the government. Anti-communist Martyrs means the people who escaped from Mainland China and directly or indirectly arrived Taiwan for some reason. Because they were in line with government 's anti-communist policies and in favor of the anti-communist propaganda, the ROC government topped the "anti-communist martyrs" in the name, and presented them to public in all means. Among all the anti-communist martyrs, the ex-communist prisoners of the Korean War and the pilots escaped from CCP were the most well known groups to Taiwan. This article is to explore how ROC government building their image and practicing the propaganda, and to address their views on life and government in Taiwan after anti-communist consciousness fade-away. No matter which group of them, they were tools of propaganda for the government's anti-communist policies and the witness of the government’s existence of international society. ROC Government set up “Freedom Day" on Jan. 23 to honor these prisoners of the Korean War, and this memorial day became a platform the government used to seeking her internationaler lebensraum. After the lifting of martial law in Taiwan, along with the passing away of anti-communist consciousness, the importance of these anti-communist martyrs was also faded out. They were gradually been forgotten by the government and people in Taiwan, and have become the victims of long term cross-strait confrontation. In the era of cross-strait interaction, they, having such sensitive and special identity, on the contrary lose the freedom to traveling around when most of the people of Taiwan and Mainland China are freely to do so.