For them, village and country overlapped, and the individual and the group were indivisible. "How these people identified themselves at that time-as both Japanese and members of the tribe-meant things were more complicated than a simple right-wrong duality," says Sun.
一種部落與國家交疊，個人與集體相互的認同，「其實就是一個民族，『當下』對自己生命的安頓，」孫大川表示。這其間的辯證，不能以簡單的對錯概念來論述。