A-Chan’s Taiwan Story

A-Chan’s Taiwan Story

Written by Li-Chang Kuo

I was born in 1953, the year was KMT left Mainland China just 4 years for oppressive ruling Taiwan. Promulgation of martial law by KMT’s Chief Chiang Kai-Shek whose first priority was ‘Catch Communist Spies’—anyone who owned or read the books concerning ‘Karl Max’ would be captured and put into the jail and tortured to death. Unfortunately, my father Kun-Cheng Kuo’s workers, one of them was to identify as ‘Communist Spy’ to arrest, my father made efforts to rescue the said communist spy, saved that guy but my father himself was embroiled a whirlpool of lawsuit, my father was astonished to be scared and arranged the outlet of his employees, only one person alone was fighting Chiang Kai-Shek’s ‘White Terror Regime’. My father looked like an impoverished person because he paid all his earned to the attorney, therefore, I’d been always starving as my childhood and realizing a very important skill—‘OBSERVATION’.

My father gave me a first name ‘Li-Chang’, but he called me ‘A-Chan’ which word in Chinese has ‘two suns’ (昌) meant ‘bright, abundance and strong’. When I realized that how to observe the matters, I found out just learned one of my father’s techniques that future should be on my hands if I did not meddle the others. So that I started trying very hard to learn something from my father. In June 1965, I was already able to make the whole set of progressive die for the deep-drawing metal parts such as ‘Eyelets & Lugs’ before I finished the Park Primary School; in addition, I could handle those related accessories of the automation which for mounting the progressive die. Consequently, I left my hometown Tainan in November 1965 for Kaoshiung and looking for the Export Processing Zone (KEPZ). During the Chinese Lunar New Year of 1966, my father was maliciously arrested by the polices of KMT, I found no KEPZ to sell my eyelets to anyone so that I became a duck-killer in the ‘National Market’ (Kuo-ming market) at 2 o’clock each morning to make money for living and kept my family alive in the darkness days.

Recall that very day of early , my father who planned to go back Tainan to see my grandma, he questioned me that “If I was captured by those evildoers, how can you do?” I answered that “Papa, do not worry, I’ll make money and protect grandma, young brothers….” Yet, when polices come to arrest my father, my grandma was attacked Incidentally by the police to break her footbinding legs to be a paralysis untill she died on 25 October, 1970. Nevertheless, I still worked hard to keep alive and never let anyone lacked of bread in each meal. I’d like to thank my Most High who brought an American to me in November 1966, and I received his first purchasing order in December, and received the first payment in January 1967; and then we unfolded a journey to conquer the global Antenna market of TV sets….

Bibliography:

Kuo, Li-Chang (2005c). Open the Way for Next Generation. Taichung: Panhornic. ISBN 957-30374-4-0