This paper takes the new century 228 family history writing as the discussion on Taiwanese fiction: Chen Yeh’s “True Love of Zhen-Hua”，Chen Yu-hui ‘s “Mazu’s body-guards”, Hu Shu-wen’s “The blood of the Sun is Black” and Yang Shawna’s “Green Island”. First of all, from the great historical framework of the Chinese war trauma, the "Nanjing Massacre" and "The 228 incident” to observed how the academic research on both sides with the theme of "healing" as an extension and supplement to Taiwan's 228 trauma discourse. It takes the theories and methods by Dr. Kellermann, an Israeli psychologist, who conducted a series of "clinical psychological analyses" of Holocaust survivors and their descendants. The related research on the intergenerational transmission of trauma expresses the memory of the previous generation also deeply affects the spiritual reality of their children. This study works on the two main themes of historical "traumatic memory" and psychological "intergenerational transmission", and adds the TV drama works of the new century to explore the development trend of 228 memory as a cultural reproduction.
This paper argues the four female writers who have created family novels with the 228 events as the background of the times. They personalize the historical events into literary works to show the attempts to “participate” and “intervene” in the historical discourse. Moreover, they take "daughter" as the main narrator, from the family second and third generation of female position, which revealed the three characteristics of women's 228 writing: First, from the perspective of the "post-228 generation", describe how the next generation inherit the traumatic memories from their parents and develop into their own growth traumas. Second, the women writers conclude a strong "healing consciousness" at the end of the novel to release understanding, forgiveness and reconciliation of good will. Third, get rid of the traditional writing pattern of male as the main victim, and take over the "subject of trauma" by physical and mental symptoms writing of women instead.
The 228 and the White Terror were the collective traumas of Taiwan people, which are still re-presented in various cultural forms. This paper is referring to the experience and achievements of cross-cultural psychotherapy for the wounds of World War II. We examine the long-standing lack of psychological discourse on perpetrators which has caused the 228 incident a hidden concern of political myths and a key difficulty for the government to promote transitional justice and reconciliation. It is argued that only through multiple narrative perspectives and reproduction forms, and to open the dialogue space between victims and perpetrators, can we go beyond the traditional framework of dual opposition and truly enter the process of social healing, from the individual's release of forgiveness and goodwill to the collective consensus of reconciliation.