Archives & Databases
The “Taipei in the Making” Project: Taipei City Parliamentary Information

The “Taipei in the Making” project endeavors to digitize and create a value-added information retrieval system for parliamentary documents authorized by Taipei City Council. The outcome includes 255,982 digitalized pages of parliamentary journals, 266,644 pages of parliamentary gazettes, and over 65,000 minutes of the Council Chamber video recordings, dating back to 1969. ......

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Women’s History in Taiwan

The Archives of the Institute of Taiwan History (ITH) at Academia Sinica holds a wide variety of historical sources pertaining to women of Taiwan; these materials date back to the Qing dynasty and can be examined from three aspects— “Traditional Women,” “Transition of Fate,” and “Self Expression.” They illustrate how Taiwanese women emerged from traditional family to modern job market and social activities with activism and independence. ......

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Archives of the Grand Secretariat

The archives of the Grand Secretariat currently housed at the Institute were originally kept at the Grand Secretariat Storehouse in the Ch’ing imperial palace. In 1929, the Institute purchased them from Li Sheng-to, a book collector, thanks to the efforts of Fu Ssu-nien, the Institute’s first director. The exhibition in this area is divided into three topics: “ The Manchu State” “Official Documents,” and “ Government Examinations.” The exhibition includes not only imperial decrees, edicts, memorials, tribute documents and other documents from.....

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Rare Books and Periodicals

This area displays rare books and periodicals collected by the Institute of History and Philology. Many are extremely rare, such as exemplary copies printed in the Sung dynasty; there are also genealogies of books, in which one single volume contains texts from different editions of the same work. In addition, there is a great amount of folk literature in the form of "song compendiums," as well as manuscripts and copies with handwritten commentaries by.....

 

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Taiwanese Materials

This part of the exhibition introduces the early period of Taiwanese history before and after its incorporation into the Ch’ing Empire in 1683. Major items include documents of four generations of Koxinga’s line, maps of the island, The General Paintings of Taiwan’s Aboriginal Peoples, which record the social and cultural aspects of aboriginals during the 17th and 18th century, and.....

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Han Dynasty Wooden Slips from Edsen-gol

Wang Kuo-wei, the great scholar of the late Ch'ing and early Republican period, called the discovery of inscribed wooden slips from the Han (206 B.C.-220 A.D.) and Ch'in (265-420) periods one of the four great academic discoveries of early-twentieth century China.The exhibition here displays more than 200 pieces from the Han period excavated around the area of Edsen-gol. Edsen-gol is located near the northwestern border of the Chinese empire in the Han dynasty. To strengthen security on the border, starting from.....

 

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