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Let’s read newspaper－Contents of The Taiwan Shinminpo and Kounan Shinbun
Let’s read newspaper－Contents of The Taiwan Shinminpo and Kounan Shinbun

Publication date: 04 Jul 2022
Author: Lee Yi-ling |Staff member of the Archives of Institute of Taiwan History

The Taiwan Minpao, The Taiwan Shinminpo and the subsequent Kounan Shinbun (Kounan News) constituted the newspaper series published between April 1923 and March 1944. However, surviving copies of the daily published since 1932 were few. In view of the importance of this newspaper series, the Institute of Taiwan History began gathering remaining copies both in Taiwan and abroad, and discovered an exclusive collection of The Taiwan Shinminpo (1938-1941). The newspapers carried diverse contents, including political and economic affairs, local news, arts and new knowledge, which are rare and precious historical materials for research on Taiwan history during World War II.

Reviewing the daily newspapers published since April 1932, this article attempts to elucidate the layout format and language use as well as main contents and subject matters covered in the columns. Moreover, it further analyzes the particularity and variations in choice of contents as time evolved and the environment changed. This article provides an in-depth introduction to this newspaper of the Taiwanese, and invites you to read the newspaper and revisit major and minor happenings of Taiwan past.

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Report of Special Collection Exhibition: Archives of Sun Jiang-huai (孫江淮)
2008-12-05

The Special Collections Exhibition: Archives of Sun Jiang-huai (孫江淮) came to a successful close on November 2, 2008 at Institute of Taiwan History (ITH), Academia Sinica.

The exhibition opened on October 25, 2008 and ran for nine days. The opening day was also the Open House Day at the 80th Anniversary of Academia Sinica and it drew an influx of visitors to come. During the following days, large numbers of school groups took a visit and well interacted with exhibition guides, exchanging many ideas frequently.

The exhibition guide was explaining the collection to visitors.(2008.10.25)

Students perused the collections in Taiwan Archives Office, ITH.(2008.10.27)

During the exhibition, a speech entitled "The Establishment of the Rule of Law in Taiwan Society under Japanese Colonization and Archives of Sun Jiang-huai(孫江淮)" by Prof. Wang Tay-sheng (College of Law, National Taiwan University) was held at ITH. Many people participated in the speech and discussed ardently. It showed that both the academia and the general public paid much attention to private archives and respected their historical value.

The moderator, Prof. Hsu Hsueh-chi(left) and speaker, Prof. Wang Tay-sheng(right) in the speech (2008.10.29)

A scene of discussing time in the speech.(2008.10.29)

Eventually, this exhibition proceeded successfully at both Tainan (2008.10.12~2008.10.18) and Taipei venue. It also had been reported by mass media, such as Libertytimes(2008.10.29), United Daily News(2008.11.10) and Taiwan Journal(2008.11.13).

In response to public expectation, the Special Collections Exhibition: Archives of Sun Jiang-huai (孫江淮) at National Museum of Taiwan Literature is being planned. Detail information regarding it will be provided at this site.


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