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The Taiwan Shinminpo News Special – Reopening Ceremony of the Taichung Railway Line in 1938
The Taiwan Shinminpo News Special – Reopening Ceremony of the Taichung Railway Line in 1938

Publication date: 1 Dec 2023
Author: Lee Yi-ling, Kawashima Naoko |Staff member of the Archives of Institute of Taiwan History

The Taiwan Shinminpo was the only newspaper published by Taiwanese during the Japanese colonial era, representing the voices of the Taiwanese people in contrast to the official stance of the Taiwan Nichinichi Shinpo. Its reports covered a wide range of topics, making it a rich source for diverse research subjects.

On July 14-15, 1938, Taiwan Shinminpo published a special issue for two consecutive days titled "Celebrating the Restoration of the Taichung Line," totaling four full pages. This commemorated the reopening of the Taichung railway line, which had been severed since the 1935 Hsinchu-Taichung earthquake. This earthquake caused numerous casualties and severed north-south transportation, significantly affecting local society and economy. Through archived newspapers, diaries, photos, old documents, and maps, this article revisits the scene of the 1935 earthquake, reviewing Taiwan's most severe natural disaster in history and the subsequent reconstruction efforts.

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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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