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Visiting the Dadaocheng Customers of Tai-yi-hou in Nagasaki through Time Traveling
Visiting the Dadaocheng Customers of Tai-yi-hou in Nagasaki through Time Traveling

Publication date: 2013
Author: Chen Qiu-jin |Staff member of the Archives of Institute of Taiwan History

The Chinese enterprise Tai-yi-hou in Nagasaki, one of the figures in Traveling in Time Exhibition, was established in the beginning of the 20th century. Its commercial trade network crossed East-Asia including the treaty ports in Vladivostok, Korean Peninsula, coastline of China, Taiwan, Luzon, Malay Peninsula, etc. Tai-yi-hou’s customers were mainly Chinese merchants in Taiwan and Southeast Asia. Since Taiwan became the colony of Japan in 1895, the Japanese Government proactively increased economic and trade relationships between Japan and Taiwan. Within this context, Tai-yi-hou gained the upper hand in expanding its business to Taiwan with its advantageous location, language and culture. Among all Tai-yi-hou Papers, approximately 17,000 commercial letters sent from Taiwan were preserved until today, and around 10,000 of which were sent from stores in Dadaocheng.
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"Taiwan Diary Knowledge Bank" Now Online for Test Purpose
2009-08-05

The “Taiwan Diary Knowledge Bank” (URL: http://taco.ith.sinica.edu.tw/tdk/) on a wiki platform is established by digital archives group at Institute of Taiwan History (ITH). Now it is online for test purpose, and regular researchers of Academia Sinica have access to it. Other users can use it at Historical Records Reading Room, ITH.

This database embodies useful and precious published dairies, including dairies of Chang Li-jun (1906-1937) and diaries of Lin Hsien-t'ang (1927-1940, dairies from 1941 to 1955 will soon be added one after another), inclusive of the full text and annotations attached to them. Users are able to browse the dairy articles by date, and perform full-text search.

Diaries are daily records of one feels and acts, and also the records of social change. They are important historical materials for studying personal history, family history, and the development of economy, society and politics.


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