I have always been curious about how did the relationships between the two “Chinas” get to what we have today. My research question is: How did the Jin Men and Matzu island effect the life of the soldiers living on it between the time periods of the late 50s, 80s, and 1998? After doing a deep research on the topic in Taipei, Taiwan, interviewing someone who actually underwent that time period and a history professor at the National Taiwan University. The professor then recommended a book for me to read as a good reference to my research question, the book is called “Cold War Island: Quemoy on the front line”. This book is very interesting, it talks a lot about how the lives of the peasants and mainly the soldiers made their way through the
