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Visiting the Dadaocheng Customers of Tai-yi-hou in Nagasaki through Time Traveling

Publication date: 2013
Author: Chen Qiu-jin |Staff member of the Archives of Institute of Taiwan History

The Chinese enterprise Tai-yi-hou in Nagasaki, one of the figures in Traveling in Time Exhibition, was established in the beginning of the 20th century. Its commercial trade network crossed East-Asia including the treaty ports in Vladivostok, Korean Peninsula, coastline of China, Taiwan, Luzon, Malay Peninsula, etc. Tai-yi-hou’s customers were mainly Chinese merchants in Taiwan and Southeast Asia. Since Taiwan became the colony of Japan in 1895, the Japanese Government proactively increased economic and trade relationships between Japan and Taiwan. Within this context, Tai-yi-hou gained the upper hand in expanding its business to Taiwan with its advantageous location, language and culture. Among all Tai-yi-hou Papers, approximately 17,000 commercial letters sent from Taiwan were preserved until today, and around 10,000 of which were sent from stores in Dadaocheng.
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Archives Related to the February 28 Incident and the White Terror
Archives Related to the February 28 Incident and the White Terror

Publication date: Feb 2017
Author: Hsieh Min-ro |Staff member at the Archives of Institute of Taiwan History
Photo: The Archives of the Institute of Taiwan History
Translated by Chen Han-shu

70 years ago, a historic event occurred, marked by fear, blood, tears, and the sound of gunshots in Taiwan. On February 27, 1947, a burst of gunfire in Taipei’s Circle District provoked people’s outrage toward the new government, the Taiwan Provincial Administrative Executive Office. On the next day, anti-government movements occurred in many areas of the island, which led to violent conflicts between police and people. Representatives and leaders in different areas organized mediation committees to negotiate with Commander Chen Yi. They made an appeal for political reform and wanted to collaborate with the government to handle the unstable situation. However, Chen Yi secretly requested that the Nanjing government send troops to suppress the protesters. In the afternoon of March 8, the troops arrived at the Keelung Port and started a brutal suppression campaign from north to south Taiwan. The police and soldiers perpetrated a massacre under the guise of inspecting households. They confiscated weapons and arrested and killed elites and regular people. This slaughter filled the island with absolute horror. Furthermore, before the incident broke out, the Secrets Bureau had already established several divisions in Taiwan. After the incident broke out, the Bureau immediately penetrated, carried out surveillance on, and alienated the mediation committees, exercising influences on local organizations. On May 15, 1947, the first Chairperson of the Taiwan Provincial Government, Wei Tao-ming, arrived in Taiwan and ceased the massacre. However, surveillance and arrests continued in Taiwan under martial law, which was issued by the Kuomintang government in 1949, the year they retreated to Taiwan from China. This period of suppression is known as the “White Terror.” Since its establishment, the Institute of Taiwan History has striven to collect folk papers, including records related to the February 28 Incident and the White Terror. These records are categorized as follows:


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