For 50 long years, two generations of Taiwanese lived under colonial rule, and their experiences growing up were very different from those of their compatriots in the motherland. When the colonial power opened up a hostile war upon the motherland, the people of Taiwan faced a tremendous predicament that they could not alter.
漫漫五十年、兩個世代的殖民政策，台人自然有著與祖國同胞不甚相同的成長經驗；而在殖民宗主國對祖國展開無情的殺戮戰爭後，台人面臨的是既難堪又無力改變的大局。