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Travel Literature: Travel Writing during Wartime (1938 - 1944)
Travel Literature: Travel Writing during Wartime (1938 - 1944)

The Institute of Taiwan History, Academia Sinica, in the years past unearthed a precious collection of the published works in 1938 – 1944 of “Taiwan Shin Min Pao” and its successor “Shing Nan News”, the only newspapers launched by the Taiwanese during the colonial rule of Japan. This piece goes through a selection of the accounts of travel that are of interest and, with the descriptions given by travelers from Taiwan and Japan to be complemented by such colorful collections as photographs, travel tickets, old papers, postcards and others, it invites you to read through the tracks of the travelers in question over tens of thousands of miles across Beijing, Manchukuo, the United States, Germany, Burma and Vietnam and discover the landscapes around a turbulent world in the midst of war from nearly a hundred years ago and the heart-felt worldviews of the travelers.

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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:

(1) Collections of 228 Incident: historical materials of Secrets Bureau, Taiwan Branch
This series includes the information files gathered by the agents of the Secrets Bureau form Keelung, Taipei, Taoyuan, Hsinchu, Miaoli, Taichung, Nantou, Changhua, Yunlin, Tainan, Chiayi, Kaohsiung, Penghu, Pingtung, Taitong, Hualien, and etc., in 1947. The original record group contains 13 file folders, while each file folder can be divided into items and each item may contain several documents. The amount of the items is 226.

(2) The historical materials of White Terror
This series are the information files gathered by the agents of the Secrets Bureau during 1947 to 1956. And they are all about the activities of political parties and individuals or organizations of non-single political party. The original record group contains 7 file folders which can be divided into items. The amount of the items is 101.
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.


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