The catalog of “The Historical Materials about 228 Incident and White Terror Period” is now accessible in the Taiwan Archival Information System
2016-04-13 |
The catalogue of “The Historical Materials about 228 Incident and White Terror Period” is updated to the Taiwan Archival Information System. The brief introduction and the path to access the collections are shown below: 1. Introduction of the archives These collections are reports generated from 228 Incident to the White Terror period in Taiwan by the agents of the Secrets Bureau, Taiwan Branch. Most of these reports are the investigations about the local conditions in Taiwan during 228 Incident, and some are the information documents gathered by the agents in the White Terror period. Those are important historical materials for surveying 228 Incident and White Terror period.2. The arrangement of collections and the information about the catalog When the collections were purchased, they were arranged as record groups and some of them are with attachments. According to the Principle of Provenance, they are divided into two series: the historical materials of 228 Incident (formally named “Collections of 228 Incident: Historical Materials of Secrets Bureau, Taiwan Branch” afterwards), and “The Historical Materials of White Terror. These documents were written by the agents of Secrets Bureau in assumed names in order to contact each other or to report layer by layer. Therefore, the relevant people in the reports or the reality of the content itself should be verified and surveyed very carefully. We use the original information of the collections to arrange them and then build the concise catalog. The contents of these two series are as follow:3. Access to the archives According to our guidelines on reading, readers can only read and make the artificial transcription in the Archives of Institute of Taiwan History, Academia Sinica because of the rarity and sensitivity of these collections.Everyone is welcomed to search and browse the catalog in the Taiwan Archival Information System. If you need to read the content of collections, please visit the Historical Records Reading Room of the Archives, ITH. |