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Nanzhuang province is situated on the north-east sector of Miaoli County; surrounded by mountains with rich resources. Taiwan’s economy was growing at a rapid pace during the 1940s and 1950s era and the need for production of natural resources is immense. Resource rich areas such as Nanzhuang province had begin mining operations under this circumstances; this had lead to an increase in miners looking for work in 1950s, with population peaking at thirty thousand. During the “golden period” of Nanzhuang, thousands of local; mostly conversion to mining work; had produced a record of twenty tonnes of coal at the peak of coal production. Unfortunately closure of coal mines had began to shutdown due to heavy depletion of coal resources in Nanzhuang; which in turn lead to a decrease in mining work, thus dwindling population. Today, we can only see traces of Nanzhuang’s former glory.
This article by the in-depth interviews way, this article by the interview way, visited 25 once in the Nanzhuang area work Hakkas miner, accounts orally the first material from them, discussed their miner’’s profession, analysis at that time they chooses the mining industry work the reason, the salary treatment as well as male, the female miner works the content difference, and understood present situation of and the view future developed to the Nanzhuang the senior miner which, worked industriously for these promotes the Nanzhuang economy, but paid the half a lifetime labor force the miner left behind the historical record.
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