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The faded memory a little long ago is involved with the girl's youth, happiness and sadness…

On Dec.3, 1966, the 1st EPZ of Taiwan and of the world was founded at Cienjhen, Kaohsiung. The girls at age 15 or 16 entered the large processing zone where they had never seen. The establish;ent of the EPZ e;barked the age of light industries and it was also the beginning of Taiwan's woman-workers' history.

They spend their youth working on the production line full of rubling noise of machines and their efforts created incredibly large volume of exports and production. For the past 40-plus years, what havet they left in the history? They have witnessed the social change and gone through vicissitudes. In the transition period from the olde age to a new era, a small group of people are impressively telling their stories.

Source: The Lost Youth: Women and Industrial Work in Taiwan blog
http://blog.yam.com/theirstories