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

A digital collection of archival documents has been in development over the recent years under the auspices of the Archives of Institute of Taiwan History, Academia Sinica. It includes the profiles of such artists from the preceding generations as Chen Cheng-Po, Yen Hsuei-Long, Chen Chih-Chi, Pu Tian-Sheng, Liu Chi-Hsiang, Kuo Hsueh-Hu in addition to papers of the nature of cultural patronage from Yang Zhao-Jia as well as private collections of works of calligraphy and painting and other historical materials. This article focuses on the activities of important artist groups that Taiwanese painters helped to create during the first half of the 20th century. Through selected private manuscripts, letters and documents, images, newspapers and magazines housed in the Archives, the exploration of interactions between various parties in the history of modern art - including individual artists, the painting groups and their patrons - reveals how the arts and society developing in parallel and prospering in unison!

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The catalog of “The Historical Materials about 228 Incident and White Terror Period” is now accessible in the Taiwan Archival Information System
2016-04-13
The catalogue of “The Historical Materials about 228 Incident and White Terror Period” is updated to the Taiwan Archival Information System. The brief introduction and the path to access the collections are shown below:

1. Introduction of the archives
These collections are reports generated from 228 Incident to the White Terror period in Taiwan by the agents of the Secrets Bureau, Taiwan Branch. Most of these reports are the investigations about the local conditions in Taiwan during 228 Incident, and some are the information documents gathered by the agents in the White Terror period. Those are important historical materials for surveying 228 Incident and White Terror period.
2. The arrangement of collections and the information about the catalog
When the collections were purchased, they were arranged as record groups and some of them are with attachments. According to the Principle of Provenance, they are divided into two series: the historical materials of 228 Incident (formally named “Collections of 228 Incident: Historical Materials of Secrets Bureau, Taiwan Branch” afterwards), and “The Historical Materials of White Terror.
These documents were written by the agents of Secrets Bureau in assumed names in order to contact each other or to report layer by layer. Therefore, the relevant people in the reports or the reality of the content itself should be verified and surveyed very carefully. We use the original information of the collections to arrange them and then build the concise catalog. The contents of these two series are as follow:

(1) Collections of 228 Incident: historical materials of Secrets Bureau, Taiwan Branch
This series includes the information files gathered by the agents of the Secrets Bureau form Keelung, Taipei, Taoyuan, Hsinchu, Miaoli, Taichung, Nantou, Changhua, Yunlin, Tainan, Chiayi, Kaohsiung, Penghu, Pingtung, Taitong, Hualien, and etc., in 1947. The original record group contains 13 file folders, while each file folder can be divided into items and each item may contain several documents. The amount of the items is 226.

(2) The historical materials of White Terror
This series are the information files gathered by the agents of the Secrets Bureau during 1947 to 1956. And they are all about the activities of political parties and individuals or organizations of non-single political party. The original record group contains 7 file folders which can be divided into items. The amount of the items is 101.
3. Access to the archives
According to our guidelines on reading, readers can only read and make the artificial transcription in the Archives of Institute of Taiwan History, Academia Sinica because of the rarity and sensitivity of these collections.
Everyone is welcomed to search and browse the catalog in the Taiwan Archival Information System. If you need to read the content of collections, please visit the Historical Records Reading Room of the Archives, ITH.


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