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Let’s read newspaper-Contents of The Taiwan Shinminpo and Kounan Shinbun

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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The series of Taiwan Rehabilitation Association and 228 Incident of “Yang Zhao-jia Papers” now released
2017-03-07
“Taiwan Rehabilitation Association and 228 Incident Papers” records Yang Zhao-jia’s experiences while he was moving to Shanghai and engaging in business since 1945 to 1950. This series contains the archives relating to Yang’s efforts of concerning Taiwan’s problems, including Republic of China (led by the Kuomintang) taking control of Taiwan, 228 Incident and the political situation of Taiwan and Shanghai.

“Taiwan Rehabilitation Association” was a nationwide group founded by Ko Tai-shan and his partners in Chongqing in August, 1945. Their main goal was concentrating people’s power to reconstruct Taiwan after the colonization under Japan. Yang Zhao-jia had organized “Taiwanese Alliance in Shanghai” and was nominated as the director. After Ko Tai-shan’s recommendation, Yang founded “Taiwan Rehabilitation Association Shanghai Chapter” and served as the director. In July 1946, six organizations in Shanghai including Taiwan Rehabilitation Association Shanghai Chapter sent the representatives appealing to the KMT government, Legislative Yuan and Executive Yuan for reforming the political and economic circumstance in Taiwan. However, Taiwan Provincial Administrative Executive Office was infuriated by this act and arrested Yang in the name of traitor. After Lin Hsien-t'ang and Qiu Nian-tai’s rescue effort, Yang was released after 37 days in jail.

When the 228 Incident broke out in 1947, Yang took flight back to Taiwan on March 1st and intended to investigate this uprising. Nevertheless, he could not contact the external circumstances because of Chen Yi’s monitoring. On the next day, he took flight back to Nanjing and kept congregating the Taiwanese in China, appealing to KMT government for reforming the political circumstance.

The series of Taiwan Rehabilitation Association and 228 Incident includes 6 file units and 136 items. Welcome to search and browse the catalog of“Yang Zhao-jia Papers” in the Taiwan Archival Information System. If you need to access the content of collections, please visit the Historical Records Reading Room of the Archives, ITH.


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