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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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Collection Details
Contents

The "Yang Yun-ping papers" contains his manuscript, correspondence with friends or organizations, and personal collection, such as other celebrities’ manuscripts, documents, cards, photos and postcards. The collection spans the mid period of Japanese rule to the period of post-war.

Yang Yun-ping’s collection of manuscript contains his literary works, such as articles, rhymes, and screenplays, hand-written manuscripts, essays, letters with family members, and notes are also included. He also kept his correspondence with friends who were the literati or scholars from Taiwan, China and Japan, and half of the correspondence are between him and Japanese friends. Yang Yun-ping loved reading and publishing articles, and most of his correspondence with organizations are invitations for papers, information about author’s remuneration, advertisement letter, and general communication. In addition, there are some letters from the "Kominhokokai (literally "Public Service Association of Imperial Subjects")" established before the World War II. AT that time, the Taiwan Governor asked local scholars and literati to write articles to promote policies of Japanese government, and Yang Yun-ping was one of them.

System of Arrangement

Being arranged in accordance with nature and subject of documents, there are 4 series in the “Yang Yun-ping Papers”, including "personal manuscripts", “correspondence with individuals", " correspondence with organizations ", and "personal collection" formed by 19 files, 896 items, with total number about 6,000 pages. Collections are listed below.

  • YP00 個人手稿 Personal Manuscripts
    • YP00_01 文稿 Literary Works
    • YP00_02 書墨作品 Calligraphy
    • YP00_03 詩作及歌謠 Poems and Rhymes
    • YP00_04 研究心得隨筆 Notes from Research
    • YP00_05 讀書筆札 Notes from Reading
    • YP00_06 家庭書信 Letters to Family
    • YP00_07 古籍抄錄 Transcription of Ancient Books
    • YP00_08 目錄雜抄 Transcription of Table of Contents
    • YP00_09 偶記短箋 Essays
  • YP01 個人往來函件 Correspondence with Individuals
    • YP01_01 臺灣人物 Taiwanese People
    • YP01_02 外國人物 Foreigners
  • YP02 機關團體往來函件 Correspondence with Organizations
    • YP02_01 臺灣機關團體:戰前 Taiwanese Organizations: Before the End of World War II
    • YP02_02 臺灣機關團體:戰後 Taiwanese Organizations: After the End of World War II
    • YP02_03 外國機關團體 Foreign Organizations
  • YP03 個人收藏 Personal Collection
    • YP03_01 收藏手稿 Manuscripts
    • YP03_02 收藏文件 Documents
    • YP03_03 收藏照片 Photographs
    • YP03_04 收藏明信片 Postcards
    • YP03_05 收藏圖書報刊 Newspapers and Magazines

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