Taiwan author Chang Ta-chun's Ssu-hsi Worries for his Country uses the story of an old retired soldier who delivers new year's announcements everywhere to demonstrate the spurious relationship between political reality and political rhetoric.
台灣張大春的〈四喜憂國〉則以一個退伍老兵四處投送元旦文告，點出政治現實與政治語言間的虛假關係。