He was born amid the turmoil of World War II and its food shortages. When he was five, the family moved to an Amis tribal village to avoid US bombing raids, and he experienced love from a stranger, a Japanese policeman: "That year the whole village--without telling the Japanese police--went up the mountain to gather firewood.
生於二次大戰末期，在那兵戈擾攘、糧食匱乏的年代，5 歲時為了躲避戰火警報，曾隨家人遷居花蓮山區阿美族部落避難，小小年紀的他曾感受過日本警察陌生的愛：