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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. Map of Damage from the 1935 Hsinchu-Taichung Earthquake, Taiwan Great Earthquake Part 1, Part 3, Photos Related to the Taiwan Earthquake of 1935 Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Commemorative Pictorial of the Taiwan Great Earthquake of 1935, Post-Earthquake Hygiene Guidelines, Yang Zhao-jia Collection (LJK).

  2. 1935 Diary of Huang Wangcheng, Huang Wang-cheng and Huang Ji-tu Papers (T0765).

  3. Historical Photos of June 1935, Collection of documents related to Taiwan by Yuji Mita (T1083).

  4. Clippings from concerts involving Gao Ci-mei, Commemorative Gathering of the Earthquake Charity Concert Tour in Caotun, Program and Admission Tickets for the "Hsinchu-Taichung Earthquake Charity Concert, Commemorative Photo Album of the Charity Concert, Gao Ci-mei Papers (3GCM).

  5. Taiwan Transport Route Map, Da'an River, View from the Third Tunnel to the Fourth through Seventh Tunnels, Michael H. Finnegan Collection (T0203).

  6. Taiwan Shinminpo No. 2673 (1938-07-14) and No. 2674 (1938-07-15), Records of The Taiwan Shinminpo (T1119).

  7. Personal and Family Photos, Miyoshi Tokusaburo Papers (T0875).

II. Taiwan Diary Knowledge Bank

  1. Diary of Lin Hsien-tang, 1935.

  2. Diary of Chang Li-jun, 1935.

  3. Memoir of Miyoshi Tokusaburo, 1938.

III. References

  1. Government-General of Taiwan, Taiwan Earthquake Record of 1935, Taipei: Government-General of Taiwan, 1936.

  2. Taichung Earthquake Recovery Office, The Taiwan Railway Earthquake Record of 1935, Taichung: Taichung Earthquake Recovery Office, 1939.

  3. Sen Hsuan-hsiung, Wu Jui-Yun, The Great Taiwan Earthquake - Documentary of the 1935 Central Taiwan Earthquake, Taipei: Yuan-Liou, 1996.

  4. Chen Yi-Hung, Communities on the Earthquake Belt - Taiwan-Japan Earthquakes in History, Tainan: National Museum of Taiwan History, 2017.

  5. Li Yu-lan, “Descriptions of Earthquakes in Diaries - A Case Study of the 1935 Hsinchu-Taichung Earthquake”, Feng Chia Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences 44 (June 2022): 83-122.

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