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

Publication date: 04 Jul 2022
Author: Lee Yi-ling |Staff member of the Archives of Institute of Taiwan History

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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Shao Yu-lin’s Diary (1953-1954) on Taiwan Diary Knowledge Bank now released
2017-08-01

Shao Yu-lin (1909-1984), whose pseudonym was Wenbo, was born in Yin Xian, Zhejiang. Shao studied in Japan in his early years. After his graduation from Kyushu Imperial University and the graduate school of Tokyo Imperial University, he went back to Republic of China and had held the position of chief in the Soviet–Japanese Section of Ministry of Foreign Affairs, consul general of R.O.C in Yokohama, director general of Intelligence Division of Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Military Affairs Commission’s representative in Korea. After he returned to Taiwan, he served as a national policy advisor to the president, and the chief of Policy Research Institute of Office of the President. In 1957, he was appointed ambassador to Turkey. He went back to Taiwan in 1964 and served as a consultant in Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He also had been the director of Institute of Japanese Studies in Chinese Culture College.

Shao Yu-lin left 10 volumes of diaries which were written in 1953-1957, 1966, 1971-1975. The content of his diaries has been interpreted and transcribed verbatim. Shao Yu-lin’s Diary would be uploaded to Taiwan Diary Knowledge Bank after Dr. Hsieh Kuo-hsing, the director of Institute of Taiwan History, reviewed the full-text transcription and the interpretation. Now Volume I of Shao’s Diary (1953-1954) is released and it contains 37 pages and about 30,000 words. The following volumes will be scrutinized and open online progressively. We welcome public register an account on Taiwan Diary Knowledge Bank to retrieve the records. Currently, there are 12 personal diaries and 1 organizational journal containing approximately 40,000 pages and 14.3 millions of words.


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