When Government Cannot Be Trusted: One Scholar Abandoned US High-Salary Teaching in Taiwan, Yet Insulted as 'Rice Bug' After Retirement

This is one scholar's personal experience in 1986 abandoning US $40,000 annual salary work, resolutely returning to Taiwan teaching (monthly salary under NT$30,000). The author enjoyed university teaching, research and helping small farmers promoting agricultural products, always believing 'the nation would care for me.' Yet after retirement, government 'broke its promise,' disparaging contributors as 'rice bugs,' leaving him feeling profound irony and unspoken betrayal, questioning Taiwan's retirement prospects.