Why is 'great reconciliation' impossible? De-Cold War/decolonization, or modernity and its tears (Part I).

Part I. Discusses the impediments between a reconciliation in East Asia. Parallelism of the relation between Taiwan and Mainland China with that between North and South Korea; Assessment of the status of the Cold War in East Asia; Issues pertaining to the era of territorial colonialism and its subsequent anti-colonialism in the region; Focus of the 1994 film, 'Dou-san,' on the colonial effects in post-Second World War Taiwan.