From the "August 23 shelling campaign" of 1958, through to the severing of diplomatic relations with the US in 1979 and the alarm about a lunar intercalary month in 1995, and even to the present day, Taiwan has witnessed a continuous outflow of emigrants. Nowhere else in the world is there a country as affluent and modern as Taiwan that hemorrhages so many people because of the fear of war.
移民潮，從「八二三砲戰」、中美斷交、一九九五閏八月… …，至今未歇。環顧全球，哪一個如台灣一般富裕而現代化的國家，卻有一波波源於最原始的、恐懼戰爭的移民潮？