ABSTRACT
Using the “life history” method and writing about a sole individual, this chapter studies the change in national identification feeling of a Taiwanese citizen, Wang Shi, whose parents are “Mainlanders” (??? waishengren) born in China. In line with the method of life history writing, I leave it to the interviewee to select and explain episodes of his life in his effort to narrate his decision to vote for a non-KMT, independence-leaning candidate in the Taipei mayoral election of November 2014. Wang, as many waishengren, had been raised in an entirely Mainlander, pro-unification, anti-Taiwan nationalism, pro-KMT family and environment and had voted for the pro-unification camp until then. This chapter specifically focuses on his change of voting behaviours. It seeks to state the process, rather than elicit the causes, of such a change.
