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

Publication date: 27 Oct 2022
Author: Lee Yi-ling, Chu Feng-chung |Staff member of the Archives of Institute of Taiwan History

The Institute of Taiwan History, Academia Sinica, in the years past unearthed a precious collection of the published works in 1938 – 1944 of “Taiwan Shin Min Pao” and its successor “Shing Nan News”, the only newspapers launched by the Taiwanese during the colonial rule of Japan. This piece goes through a selection of the accounts of travel that are of interest and, with the descriptions given by travelers from Taiwan and Japan to be complemented by such colorful collections as photographs, travel tickets, old papers, postcards and others, it invites you to read through the tracks of the travelers in question over tens of thousands of miles across Beijing, Manchukuo, the United States, Germany, Burma and Vietnam and discover the landscapes around a turbulent world in the midst of war from nearly a hundred years ago and the heart-felt worldviews of the travelers.

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IV. Conclusion

We can travel back in time and trace history by visiting the aged architectures in Dadaocheng, reminiscing the atmosphere of prosperous streets in the late Qing dynasty and the Japanese colonial period, retrospecting the clues in letters of Dadaocheng merchants in 20th century and investigating the textual and non-textual references that carried memories. In this time traveling special exhibit, in addition to introducing Zhuang-yi-fang Store, Guo-yi-mei Store, Jin-tai-heng Store,Qian-yuan Pharmacy and Lin-fu-zhen Storethere is also an introduction of other customers of Tai-yi-hou like San-yi-long in Vladivostok, Zheng-tai-mei in Singapore, Chang-ji Hong in Fuzhou, Chian-sheng-chuang in Hong Kong, etc. With these historical records, let us experience the joy of traveling back in time!


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