英文摘要
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Since <The Village> premiered in December 2008, this three-hour drama has been held to be a cultural monument of Taiwan, as it vividly represents the reality of military community life on this island. The theme of the identity construction, multi-leveled and subject to change, of two generations across sixty years is a tremendously significant topic, yet very few studies on this drama have treated it seriously. Through the lens of cultural study theories of nationalism and identity, this paper attempts to explore the problem of identity encountered by the military community people in <The Village>, whose identity is marked by the history of being forced to move to Taiwan and 40 years later seeing their homeland again. The specific topics for investigation include the cultural symbols of Taiwan, hometown, and ethnic group; complex and changing identity formation; and the correlation between the demolition of the military dependents' villages and the collapse of their identity.
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