Just to mention the representative anti-Japanese guerilla fighters recorded in history, the following names come to mind: people such as Lin Huo-wang, Chen Ch'iu-chü, Chien Ta-shih, Lai Fu-lai, Lin T'ien-fu, and Lin Shao-mao, who, in the initial period of the Japanese takeover of Taiwan, started putting together an army of resistance in such places as I-lan, Tou-liu, and Feng-shan;

    or Ts'ai Ch'ing-lin, Lin Ch'ing-yü, Huang Ch'ao, Li A-ch'i, Lo Fu-hsing, Chang Ta-lu, Yü Ch'ing-fang, Chiang Ting, and Yang Lin, who took part in such events as the Pei-p'u Incident, the Liu-chia Incident (these during the tenure of Governor General Sakuma), the Hsi-lai-an Incident, and the Hsin-chuang Incident (during the tenure of Governor General Andô).

     Lin Shao-mao at the end of Meiji 31 [1898] got into a battle with the Third Brigade in the lower part of the Tansui River region. When defeated, he hid out for a time, but, influenced by the Boxer Rebellion in China, he started up another revolt in May of Meiji 35 [1902].  He was killed at Hou-pi in T'ai-nan prefecture in the southern part of Taiwan. Yü Ch'ing-fang's incident is also called the Hsi-lai-an Incident, because the plot to raise troops occurred at Hsi-lai-an in T'ai-nan city.  Inspired from afar by the 1911 Republican Revolution in China and near at hand by the Twenty-one Demands that Japan made upon China [in 1919], this was an organized and armed guerilla affair. Not surprising for an event that produced a high number of death penalties unprecedented in judicial history, the total number of people arrested was 1,957:  866 were executed, 453 were sentenced to imprisonment for a definite term, 217 were subjected to administrative disposition, 333 had their cases dropped, 86 were judged innocent, and the disposition of the others is unknown.  However, actually the number of those slaughtered by the Second Regiment near Tamai (Yü-ching) alone is said to have been at least 1000.
Although I have let the discussion digress in this way, a sentence that seems casually written such as "It is because in everyone's memory there remains fresh as ever the bloody spectacle of the suppression of Yü Ch'ing-fang, Lin Shao-mao, and the others who plotted against the government"must hearken back to bloody memories of things that the author Yang K'uei had seen and heard when he was young-memories made of images superimposed on earlier images.  It goes without saying that this uprising had as its center the former Hsin-hua county in which he was born.

     Moreover, the consciousness of the author has moved to a perspective that enables the oppressed person to transcend ethnic differences and advance hand in hand with members of the other group.

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