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Let’s read newspaper－Contents of The Taiwan Shinminpo and Kounan Shinbun
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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This site built by National Central Library is to offer access to digital archives of Taiwan historical resources. The resources include chronicles of Taiwan area, rare books, historical records, pedigree, postcards under Japanese rule, historical photos, paleo-maps, TTV(Taiwan Television Enterprise Ltd.) news video from 1962 etc. The website is only in Chinese. 

This catalog contains bibliographic information of the rare book joint collection archived by the Institute of Taiwan History (ITH) and the National Taiwan Library (NTL). Through this catalog, patrons can search books originally held by the Imperial Taiwan Library, the Southern Materials Center and purchased from the Japanese professors of the Taiwan University after World War II. The collection is approximately 150,000 volumes. In consideration of proper arrangement of archives repository, ITH decides to return all the rare books to the NTL and ends the relevant paping serive from March 28, 2016. The NTL is planning to reopen the rare book request service on July 1, 2016.

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