From Foot Soldier to College Professor A Memoir

簡介

This is an amazing story of how many sinuous turns a life has got! Nevertheless, James C. Ma is strong enough to have seen it all through. Particularly, James, with his good administrative and leadership skills, shines as Department Head, Dean of Liberal Arts College, Provost and Dean of Students successfully at NCKU. As James' College classmate, I'm proud of how he rises from foot soldier to both literary professor and poet in name and in reality, never shying away from challenges.”
──Fuhsiung Lin on October 4, 2020

“A remarkable personal account concerning one of the epochal periods in Chinese History.”
──Dr. Hsincheng Chuang

“The vivid epitome of the individual struggle for survival in the big era; the magnificent life challenges to be admired by the others.”
──Chair Professor, Weiming Lu, Institution of Education at NCKU

“Prof. Ma's memoir shows his tremendous amount of guts and indomitable spirit in his personal odyssey in the late 1940s when retreating south in the Chinese Civil War. He fulfilled the essence of the quotes from Hemingway as saying: “Man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.” He was not defeated nor discouraged by the mistreatmeat of those vicious and illerate cadres on the Penghu Islands, and instead, he succeeded in earning his BA and advanced degrees MA and Ed.D. after he quit the army. This book is a tour deforce. And it inspires me with confidence to pursue my academic career.”
──Assistant Prof., Shuimei Chung, I-Shou University

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目次

Preface

1 An Archaeological Site－Ling County
2 Nicknamed: The Little Muddle Head
3 Elementary School Days
4 Secondary School Days
5 A Group of Five on the Road to Qingdao
6 Selling Shoes in Qingdao
7 Shanghai! Shanghai!
8 Students' Protest at Changanzhen
9 The Trip to Longyou
10 Rough Road to Fuzhou
11 On the Jiho
12 Press-ganded into the Army on the Penghu Archipelago
13 Life and Death on the Penghu Islands
14 Literary Friends in the Army
15 Military Training Base in Taiwan
16 The Taichung Incident
17 Days in the Hospital
18 Mr. Li Pingbo's Wisdom
19 The Waishuang Stream
20 Way to Higher Education
21 University Days
22 Nantou Secondary School
23 Eating and Drinking Club
24 First Trip to the U.S.
25 Working Days in San Francisco
26 The Taipei College of Business
27 Second Trip to the U.S.
28 Return to NCKU Again
29 Heading the Department of Foreign Languages and Literature
30 Recruiting ESL Teachers in the U.S.A.
31 Acting Dean of the College of Liberal Arts
32 Dean of Discipline
33 Reunion with My Sisters in Hong Kong
34 A Poetry Journal
35 The Tomb-Sweeping Trip
36 The Beijing Trip
37 Acting Chairman of Graduate Institute of Education
38 Enjoying My Retirement
39 Setting Up the Department of Applied English for Leader College
40 "Pursuing the Star"
41 The Course of Research Methodology
42 Hemingway Studies

Epilogue
Bibliography of Chinese Works Cited
Bibliography of English Works Cited
EndNotes
Acknowledgements