| dc.description.abstract | Taiwan has always been a land of suffering. From the viewpoint of China, it is at the farthest east from across the sea and was once ceded. Moreover, Taiwan only asks to be content to retain sovereignty while strives to become a place where nationalism is its ultimate goal. In addition, Taiwanese people exert all their strength in extending diplomacy, in which they find the quickest way to reach that is through sports activities.
Although China was sarcastically called “the East Asian Wimp,” the baseball team formed by students sent from Ching Dynasty to America such as Zhan Tian-You (詹天佑), famous for building railroads, and ambassador Lian Dun-Yan (梁敦彥), beat the Oakland Baseball Team in 1881. In other words, under such difficult intercontinental circumstances, glorifying their country seems to be the perpetual goal for Chinese athletes.
With unfavorable international situation, Taiwan is often boycotted by all kinds of global organizations. Only through the notion of “politics is politics, sports are sports” can Taiwan get the chance to be admitted to those organizations, in which athletes hold the most important roles. However, unnoticeable bitterness is always there behind the outstanding appearance. In consequence, recording the deeds of those athletes in written languages has become a fashion in order to preserve the permanent value of their contributions and be the models of the masses.
Basically, for biographies to be published in such low-consuming era, they must be assessed of embracing certain degree of market trend and the worth of being written down. Nevertheless, only through deleting the factors of marketing benefits can an autobiography presents its authentic existing value. As a result, this dissertation will try to manage and analyze present written data, well known or unique works so as to figure out the features of athletes of respective categories and to draw the final conclusion from combining with current situations.
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