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Travel Literature: Travel Writing during Wartime (1938 - 1944)
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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Related Collections and References
 I. The Archives of Institute of Taiwan History
  1. Eastern Taiwan Prospect, Guo Shuang-fu Collection, (T1022).
  2. Summary of Hualien Port Construction Plan, Records Preserved by Bank of Taiwan (T0868).
  3. Catalogue of Ninth Taiwan Art Exhibition, Kuo Hsueh-hu Paintings and Papers (T1089).
  4. The Taiwan Shinminpo Nos. 3115 (1939-10-01) and 3116 (1939-10-02), Records of The Taiwan Shinminpo (T1119).
  5. Album of Inspection Photos (17), Kiyoshi Hasegawa Papers (T0886).
II. Taiwan Rare Book Collections
  1. Document Section of the Government-General of Taiwan, ed. Taiwan Photo Book, Taipei: Editor, 1908.
  2. Kanya Endo, ed. Views of Campaign Against the Aborigines in Formosa, Taipei: Endo Photo Studio, 1912.
  3. Photographic Society of Taiwan, ed. Taiwan Photo Book, Volume 2, Taipei: Editor, December 1914.
  4. Taiwan Nichi Shinpo, ed. Photo of Crusade Against the Truku, Taipei: Editor, 1915.
  5. Japan Travel Association, Taiwan branch, ed. Taiwan Railway Travel Guide (1940 edition), Taipei: Editor, 1940.
III. References
  1. Lin Yu-ju, The Colonial Frontier: Political and Economic Development of Eastern Taiwan, Taipei: Yuan-Liou Publishing Co., Ltd., 2007.
  2. Chang Su-bing, Unaccomplished Colonization: Japanese Immigrant Village in Taiwan, Taipei: Acropolis, 2017.
  3. You Jhih-sheng, “From concentrating in major ports to expanding to regional minor ports: A study on the context of the changing port construction policy of Taiwan Governor General’s Office in the 1930s”, Taiwan Historica 65: 3 (September 2014): 267-306.
  4. Tai Pao-tsun, “Centennial Review of Truku War”, Newsletter of Taiwan Studies 82 (July 2014): 9-11.
  5. Chung Su-ming, “The role of political-merchant in the development of east Taiwan during Japanese colonization - The case of Katakinsaburou”, Taiwan Historical Research 11: 1 (June 2004): 79-117.
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