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Listening to the World Locally – The Homecoming Tour of Taiwanese Musicians
Listening to the World Locally – The Homecoming Tour of Taiwanese Musicians

Publication date: 20 Aug 2024
Author: Lee Yi-ling, Wang Li-Chiao | Staff member at the Archives of Institute of Taiwan History

Ninety years ago, in August 1934, a group of young Taiwanese musicians embarked on the first Western music concert tour in Taiwan’s history. The Homecoming Concert Tour began with great fanfare during the scorching summer of the South Island, kicking off at the Taipei Medical School Auditorium. With a packed itinerary, the tour traveled southward, stopping at public assembly halls in Hsinchu, Taichung, Changhua, Chiayi, and Tainan, before culminating in a final performance at the Kaohsiung Youth Hall. Despite the demanding schedule, the musicians delivered exquisite piano melodies and harmonies to audiences across Taiwan, sparking widespread acclaim.

This article focuses on Taiwan’s first “Homecoming Concert Tour,” which was rapidly organized in just over a month. The program primarily featured Western musical compositions. During the scorching summer of the South Island, this grand musical feast unfolded with enthusiasm, traveling from north to south with seven performances. It offered audiences across Taiwan an auditory delight, broadened their horizons, and brought Western music closer to the local population. This tour marked the beginning of Taiwan’s musical diversity and led to Taiwan’s music being recognized on the Olympic stage, where Taiwanese music shone brightly on the global scene.

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Every Day Is a Good Day: Taiwan Dairy Exhibition
2009-10-28

Every Day Is a Good Day: Taiwan Dairy Exhibition

Institute of Taiwan History (ITH) is devoted to acquisition and preservation of Taiwan historical materials from both official and private sections. Compared with the content of official records, historical materials from private section observed events from the perspectives of populace. Revealing writers’ time and thought, diaries which depict the personal daily lives, are precious first-hand data for history research, especially personal and family history.

"Every Day Is a Good Day: Taiwan Dairy Exhibition" will be held by ITH at the Open House of Academia Sinica in 2009, including dairy collections, publications and Taiwan Diary Knowledge Bank. 12 writers’ dairies are exhibited, and the time zone of their contents range from Japanese rule period to postwar years. These writers hold different social positions, such as Yasumasa (Zhang Li-jun, 張麗俊), peasant movement promoter (Jian Ji, 簡吉), journalist (Huang Wang-cheng, 黃旺成), lawyer (Wu Hong-qi, 吳鴻麒), Huang Ji-tu, 黃繼圖), doctor (Lin Yu-diao, 林玉雕), musician (Gao Ci-mei, 高慈美), and poet (Lin Chi-xian, 林癡仙). In addition, dairies written by two couples from the Wufong Lin family are the most precious ones. One couple are Lin Ji-tang (林紀堂) and Chen Ling (陳岺), and the other are Lin Xian-tang (林獻堂) and Yang Shui-xin (楊水心). These dairies reveal the appearance of society perceived by the writers in the early days of Taiwan.

Exhibition Information
Venue
Conference Room (802R) of Institute of Taiwan History, Academia Sinica
Address: 8F, Building for Humanities and Social Sciences, 128 Academia Sinica Rd., Sec. 2, Nankang, Taipei 11529, Taiwan Institute of Taiwan History, Academia Sinica.
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Date Oct. 31st, 2009 (Sat.)
Time 9:00 am to 16:00 pm
Keynote Address
Speaker: Hsu Hsueh-chi, director of ITH
Topic: Taiwan History in Diaries
Time: 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm
Place: Conference Room (820R), Institute of Taiwan History, Academia Sinica
Other Activities
  1. Demonstration of Taiwan Diary Knowledge Bank (a wiki-based system with dairy content)
  2. Demonstration of the publications of Taiwan dairies
Organizer:
  • The digital project of ITH
  • Dairy interpretation group of ITH
Co-Organizer:
  • Taiwan Archives Office, ITH
  • Publication Office, ITH
Contact Information:
Chen Hong-kuan: (02)2652-5350 ext. 6851


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