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News

2025-07-24 Family Business / Business Family: Hou Yu-li and Corporate Legacy of the Tainan Group has been published.

2025-04-28 Taiwan Historical Research was awarded the Selected Journal Communication Award (Five-year citation) at the National Central Library's "The Academic Energy and Style of Taiwan's Journal Resources in 2024": First Place in History Journals.

Academic Activities

How was Euro-American Natural History Practice Implemented in East Asia?: On Robert Swinhoe (1836-1877) and the Making of Natural History Knowledge

Other Events

How was Euro-American Natural History Practice Implemented in East Asia?: On Robert Swinhoe (1836-1877) and the Making of Natural History Knowledge

Time

2026-04-27

Place

Room 802 at ITH

From Firewood Charcoal to Electricity: The Use of Heat Sources in the Hengchun Peninsula

Research Groups Events

From Firewood Charcoal to Electricity: The Use of Heat Sources in the Hengchun Peninsula

Time

2026-04-28

Place

Room 802 at ITH

The Fragility of Chinese Merchant Networks: The Construction and Rupture of Trade Networks between Tainan Trading Houses and the Nagasaki Taiyi Firm (1900-1911)

Tuesday Lectures

The Fragility of Chinese Merchant Networks: The Construction and Rupture of Trade Networks between Tainan Trading Houses and the Nagasaki Taiyi Firm (1900-1911)

Time

2026-04-28

Place

Room 802 at ITH

Situating Taiwan Globally through Comprehensive Fisheries Histories: A Case Study of Taiwan’s Fisheries History in the Pacific

Other Events

Situating Taiwan Globally through Comprehensive Fisheries Histories: A Case Study of Taiwan’s Fisheries History in the Pacific

Time

2026-05-08

Place

Room 802 at ITH

How do “Taiwaneses (Taiwanese Americans)” “Appear” in the U.S. Population Census ?: National Policy, Grassroots Movements, and Institutionalization of Ethnic Classification

Research Groups Events

How do “Taiwaneses (Taiwanese Americans)” “Appear” in the U.S. Population Census ?: National Policy, Grassroots Movements, and Institutionalization of Ethnic Classification

Time

2026-05-11

Place

Room 802 at ITH

Publication

The Trade Correspondence of Tainan Jinyixing Firm Series

Historical Source Material Series

The Trade Correspondence of Tainan Jinyixing Firm Series

Date

2025-12-29

Author

Yu-ju Lin ed.

Struggling in Adversity: Our Thorny Path

Oral History

Struggling in Adversity: Our Thorny Path

Date

2025-12-29

Author

Hsueh-chi Hsu, Cheng-hui Lin, Kun-hung Hou, Chao-wen Wang, Hung-fu Hsueh

A Middle Manager in Taiwan's Coal Mining Industry: An Oral History of Mr. Kuo-hsiung Wang

Oral History

A Middle Manager in Taiwan's Coal Mining Industry: An Oral History of Mr. Kuo-hsiung Wang

Date

2025-12-18

Author

Hsu, Sheng-kai

The Diaries of Ng Ong-seng, Vol. 1-26 (1912-1943)

Historical Source Material Series

The Diaries of Ng Ong-seng, Vol. 1-26 (1912-1943)

Date

2025-12-18

Author

Ng Ong-seng; Hsueh-chi Hsu (ed.)

The Selden Map and Tn̂g-lâng: An Exploration of Geographical Knowledge and World Vision in East and Southeast Asia (1500-1620)

Monograph

The Selden Map and Tn̂g-lâng: An Exploration of Geographical Knowledge and World Vision in East and Southeast Asia (1500-1620)

Date

2025-12-04

Author

Tsung-jen Chen

Collection

Listening to the World Locally – The Hom

New Featured Article "Listening to the World Locally – The Homecoming Tour of Taiwanese Musicians" has been Released

The Taiwan Shinminpo News Special – Reop

The Taiwan Shinminpo News Special – Reopening Ceremony of the Taichung Railway Line in 1938

The Taiwan Shinminpo News Special – Open

The Taiwan Shinminpo News Special – Opening of Hualien Port, 1939

100 Years of Taiwanese Voice & 30th Anni

100 Years of Taiwanese Voice & 30th Anniversary of ITH

Let’s read newspaper

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

Travel Literature: Travel Writing during

Travel Literature: Travel Writing during Wartime (1938 - 1944)

Propagating Political Views to the Publi

Propagating Political Views to the Public – From New People’s Society to The Taiwan Shinminpo

United in Art

United in Art – Artist Groups and Their Network of Activities during the Japanese Colonial Period