戰後臺灣史研究的開啟：以1945-1949年臺灣各類型雜誌刊載的內容為例（上）

Abstract

It has been only around 100 years that Taiwan history became a single and worthy research topic. Though information was kept through written records in Dutch, Spanish and Chinese from 17(superscript th) Century, those materials were considered of historical interest for research purposes only after Taiwan was ceded to Japan in 1895. However, how did the Republic of China (R.O.C.) government officials who took over Taiwan treat Taiwan history researching results obtained during Japanese colonial period? It was a surprise finding that near all research publications were focus on Japanese colonial period from 1945 to 1949. According to sheer amount of articles, important research topics included industry history, economy history, education history, traffic history, social history, material introduction, political history, literature history and religion history. Those researches allowed the R.O.C. government officials who had just arrived Taiwan to understand 50 years of Taiwanese progress under Japanese rule. At the same time, positive reviews outnumber negative reviews amongst those publications. Secondly, the publication regarding Qing Dynasty and Taiwanese folklore were less numerous than those regarding Japanese colonial period, mostly were of re-acquaintance in nature. As molding of Taiwan history was concerned, discussion of Taiwan history under the framework of Chinese history was a tendency that became obvious during the post World War Ⅱ era. Taiwanese history scholars had a major shift of emphasis after 1950s, for at least 30 years research gained traction towards Qing Dynasty period while Japanese colonial period lost its' appeal. As result, initial research achieved regarding Japanese Colonial period during postwar period faced risk of being truncated. Should there be any contribution from this article, it should be the discussion about beginning of Taiwan history at post World War Ⅱ period.