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Visiting the Dadaocheng Customers of Tai-yi-hou in Nagasaki through Time Traveling
Visiting the Dadaocheng Customers of Tai-yi-hou in Nagasaki through Time Traveling

Publication date: 2013
Author: Chen Qiu-jin |Staff member of the Archives of Institute of Taiwan History

The Chinese enterprise Tai-yi-hou in Nagasaki, one of the figures in Traveling in Time Exhibition, was established in the beginning of the 20th century. Its commercial trade network crossed East-Asia including the treaty ports in Vladivostok, Korean Peninsula, coastline of China, Taiwan, Luzon, Malay Peninsula, etc. Tai-yi-hou’s customers were mainly Chinese merchants in Taiwan and Southeast Asia. Since Taiwan became the colony of Japan in 1895, the Japanese Government proactively increased economic and trade relationships between Japan and Taiwan. Within this context, Tai-yi-hou gained the upper hand in expanding its business to Taiwan with its advantageous location, language and culture. Among all Tai-yi-hou Papers, approximately 17,000 commercial letters sent from Taiwan were preserved until today, and around 10,000 of which were sent from stores in Dadaocheng.
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2017 Academia Sinica Open House Day had been Successfully Concluded!
2017-11-03

The annual Academia Sinica Open House Day had been successfully concluded on October 28, 2017. Institute of Taiwan History organized various activities including exhibition, stamping and coloring the postcards in the common room on 8F, North Building for Humanities and Social Science. Following our guided tour, visitors experienced an imagined journey with the writers of the diaries and left with pleasant memories.

Travel Memories--Journeys and Experiences in the Diaries

Base on the travel records of The diary of Mr. Guanyuan in 1927 and The Diary of Ye Sheng-ji in 1939, this exhibition, presenting the theme of traveling to Europe and school excursion, guided visitors to follow the travelers’ steps and retrospect the impressive scenery through viewing the archives of photographs, postcards, letters and passport issuance.


Visitors were listening to the tour with great interest. (see the figure above)
Visitors were redeeming the gift after coloring their postcard and finishing the learning sheet. (see the figure below)


Three color stamp printing

Coloring your own postcards

Visitors relieved their stress form everyday life through joining the coloring activities. They used their own color to fill up the scenery and smile, representing the travel memories in the journey of history. 


Visitors concentrated on coloring their postcard with colored pencil and wax pastel.


Colored postcards. (photographed with the creator’s consent)


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