不同政權下吳新榮醫業的開展、延續與鞏固──以吳新榮日記為分析對象（1933-1967）

"Development, Continuity, Regime Change: Taiwan as Depicted in the Diary of Wu Xin-rong (1933-1967)"

吳新榮，臺南將軍人，1907年出生，是著名的文學家和醫師。1932年畢業於東京醫學專門學校，其後回到北門郡佳里庄接替叔父吳丙丁開設的佳里醫院，終生在此小鎮懸壺濟世。行醫之餘，也熱衷文學創作、事業經營和政治及社會參與。他長期擔任醫師公會的職務，並在1939年以最高票當選佳里街協議會員，1946年當選戰後第一屆臺南縣參議員，1951年臺南縣議員落選後與政治漸行漸遠；1952年擔任臺南縣文獻委員會委員兼編纂組長，歷時八年完成《臺南縣志稿》10卷13冊；1960年與友人合開新生聯合醫院並擔任院長。1967年因心臟病猝逝。日記是一個人生活的真實記錄，也是年華流轉之下的細微縮影。吳新榮一生經歷兩個截然不同的政權型態，長達三十多年的行醫歷程和生活點滴都詳細記錄在日記之中，正好可以觀察1930年至1960年代一位小鎮醫師在時代變遷下的詳實面貌。目前已出版的《吳新榮日記全集》共計11冊，時間從1933至1967年，前後長達33年，其內容豐富、文筆生動、字句感人，不但是臺灣文人最長時間的日記，也為日治後期和戰後初期兩個時代留下諸多面向的真實記錄。本文主要考察吳新榮身為一名小鎮醫師，在不同政權下從事的政治及社會等方面的參與，以及這些參與對其行醫事業和人生遭遇所造成的影響。

"The well-known author and doctor Wu Xin-Rong was born in 1907, in what is now the Jiangjun district of Tainan city, Taiwan. After graduating from medical school in Tokyo in 1932, he returned to Taiwan to practice medicine at Chiali village in Beimen county. There he worked for the remainder of his life at Chiali Hospital, which had been founded by his uncle Wu Ping-Ting. When he was not busy practicing medicine, Wu also wrote, engaged in business, and participated in various political and social activities. He was a long-standing member of the Medical Association, for instance; he was also a Senator representing Tainan county. In 1952, he became chief editor of the Tainan Documentation Committee, a position that he would hold for eight years, and that resulted in the ten-volume work The Tainan County Chronicles. He died suddenly from a heart attack in 1967.From 1933 to 1967, Wu Xin-Rong kept a diary chronicling not only events at the hospital but also daily life in Taiwan during those years. Through his diary, which has recently been published in eleven volumes as the Wu Xin-Rong Diary Series, we catch a glimpse of Taiwan, as seen through the eyes of a small-town doctor. Indeed, his diary is a microcosm of life in Taiwan for more than three decades. As Wu vividly recorded many unforgettable details in his journal, and as he lived successively through two different regimes—first the Japanese colonial government, whose rule over the island ended in 1945, and then the Kuomintang government, which took over Taiwan at the end of the Second World War—his diary is also an invaluable historical document. This study probes Wu’s diary to see how he participated in political and social activities; it also looks at how the two political systems that he lived under changed and defined his career and life experiences."