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Minghu Junior High School (2006 CyberFair Project ID 4294)
Taiwan,
Taipei
Official Status:
Final Project: Ready for Judging
Teacher:
Category: 2. Community Groups and Special Populations
We estimate 5 student(s) from 12 to 13 will work on this entry.
Description of Our Community: 6 decades ago, as the Nationalist government failed in the civil war between Kuomintung and Chinese Communist Party, a massive wave of immigration occurred across the Taiwan Strait. Approximately one million of so-called “provincial families” or “external provincial persons” came to Taiwan with the government. Most of them were soldiers and their dependents dwelling in different places dispersively. In order to help them settle down, the government built many military dependents' villages named “Bamboo Fences” featured by “bamboo and tile as a roof, chopsticks and mud as a wall.” With time passing, these formed a very special family having its own culture of villages and lifestyle. There are military dependents’ villages everywhere in Taiwan. As living in Taipei and having a favorable geographic position, we take these villages in Taipei City as our research topic.
Project Description: Taking “Bamboo Fences” to describe military dependents’ villages implies the meanings of “segregation” and “isolation”. Indeed, it’s the situation of military dependents’ villages in early times. However, as time changed, “Bamboo Fences” surrounding military dependents’ villages were torn down with urban renewal, reconstruction of military dependents’ villages, outward moving of the residents for studying and marriage, etc. It’s a pity that we can sense a tendency of confrontation and discord among Taiwan’s races and families due to the previous elections in recent years, making people on this land worry. We made interviews with many veterans or honorary soldiers, their dependents, and the younger generation. By means of this project report research, we hope to enhance more comprehension and understanding between different races and families. Because no matter people came to Taiwan earlier or later, they all settled down and took root on this land. Furthermore, we hope to make people inside/outside the “Bamboo Fences” all realize that “We are families” through this project report.