非虛構寫作紀錄二戰後臺灣人的身不由己 以日本國民身分遠赴滿洲國，面對異域與隨之而來的戰事 從小人物個人生命經驗看大歷史底下的流轉與哀傷 西伯利亞拘留，指的是二戰末期，蘇聯向日本開戰，戰敗後大量的日軍戰俘強制移送西伯利亞與中亞、蒙古等地，在惡劣高壓的環境中進行苦役工作，在那不毛之地導致許多人魂斷異鄉。 除了日本人，當時的臺灣人成為戰俘後，也被送往西伯利亞。臺灣人來自溫暖海島，更加不能適應北地氣候，然而，這段歷史卻被抹去、消失於臺灣人的記憶中。 本書從宜蘭男兒陳以文的生命歷程出發，透過他的經驗，回到那混亂的一九四五年，跟著他從日本本土出發，前往滿洲、西伯利亞，重新認識並補足屬於臺灣人的歷史。

During World War II, Taiwanese living under Japanese colonial rule were inevitably drawn into Japan’s imperialist expansionism in Asia. In the past two decades, an increasing number of historians and writers came to excavate stories of former Japanese colonial subjects--including those from Taiwan and Korea--who served in the Imperial Army. Under Japan’s policies of kōminka (皇民化), a process of imperial subjectification, thousands of Taiwanese and Korean youths were mobilized to join the volunteer soldiers program. According to Japan’s Ministry of Health, Labour, and Welfare, 207,138 Taiwanese youths had served in the army, most of whom were sent to southern China or Southeast Asia. Tân Í-bûn’s (陳以文, 1927-2012) story is an exceptional one: joining the army in 1944, he was sent to Manchuria. When the war concluded, Í-bûn and his comrades were captured by the Soviet army and imprisoned at an internment camp in Siberia. Seventy years after his survival from the camp, Í-bûn’s story was recollected in his grandson Chen Li-hang (陳力航)’s recently published book, Minus 68 Degree Celsius: Taiwanese POW in Post-World War II Siberia (《零下六十八度：二戰後臺灣人的西伯利亞戰俘經驗》。臺北：前衛出版, 2021). The exceptional story of Tân Í-bûn began in 1944 when he was a middle school student in Tokyo. The third son of a respected doctor in Yilan (宜蘭), Taiwan, Í-bûn was expected to follow the path of his father and two older brothers and attend medical school, eventually becoming a doctor. Instead, he decided to join the Japanese Imperial Army, hoping to bring honor to his family. Li-hang told us that his grandfather’s experience reflected the complexity of Japanese colonial governance. Using his Japanese name Kageyama Masafumi (景山雅文) during his time in Tokyo and Manchuria, Í-bun seldom experienced discrimination or unfair treatement like he did as a colonial subject in Taiwan. A highly educated and Japanized Taiwanese youth like Í-bun would find more opportunities for social advancement in the Japanese mainland and its colonial territories such as Manchuria in the 1940s. As an imperial soldier, Í-bûn received his training in Hachinohe (八戶) in northeastern Japan and was sent to an air base in Xingshu (杏樹), a village in northeastern Manchuria that was less affected by rampant U.S. air raids at that time. However, only a few months after his arrival, the Soviet Union declared war on Japan and invaded Manchuria. Í-bûn was captured along with other 630,000 Japanese soldiers. In November 1945, he was sent to Tayshet, the administrative center of labor camps Ozerlag and Angarstroy during the 1930s–1950s. Having lost millions of lives during the war, the Soviet Union hoped to use POWs to supplement its insufficient labor force for postwar reconstruction. Í-bûn and other POWs were forced to work at a nearby forest farm and railway construction sites. The scarcity of food supply meant prolonged periods of starvation for Japanese POWs. “The ration we received in the camps was scarce. Food pieces dissolved in your mouth like soda drinks,” Í-bûn recalled. According to statistics, one tenth of Japanese POWs died during their detention in Siberia. Í-bûn was a luckier one. In May 1948, he was rep