The Third Volume of Translations of Foreign Historical Materials on the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895 in Taiwan

Author

陳怡宏編導讀，百年翻譯社翻譯

Language

Chinese

Publisher

國立臺灣歷史博物館

Pages

540

Publication Date

2019/12

Binding

精裝

ISBN/Barcode

9789865320058

Collection

Product Dimensions

菊16開

Book Description

Japanese invasion of Taiwan in 1895 was referring to the war between Japanese army dispatched to take over Taiwan and Taiwanese resisting forces, following the First Sino-Japan war in 1984 and the ensuing Treaty of Shimonoseki, under which Taiwan was ceded to Japan. The National Taiwan History Museum compiled related historical documents, of which the first volume was published by the Museum and Mr. Steven Pan in 2016. The purpose of the publication was to highlight Chinese historical materials and local perspectives, and to translate data contained in the “Taiwan Prefecture City Church News” into Modern Taiwanese and Chinese.
As if the Chinese materials reflected thoughts of Chin Dynasty and Taiwan, foreign language documentations, which mainly were divided into two parts of Western language and Japanese, would review the most important battle in Taiwan history from different angles. Since the ban on commerce with outside had been lifted in late Chin Dynasty, many foreigners, such as consular officers, military personnel, businessmen, customs officers, adventurists and missionary, settled down in Taiwan before the War and kept quite amount of materials. As a party to the War, Japanese had kept lot of records and documentations, including combat reports, field logs, files of Taiwan Governor-general Office, and news reports, illustrations and photos. Since Japan was the victor of the war, it maintained abundant materials from official, journalistic and personal sources.
In addition to text documents, the compilation series, in accordance with languages, contains large non-text materials, such as illustrations, photos and audio data.
The Japanese edition included comprehensive and rich materials from Japanese journalists’ notes, letters to their family members, and diaries, which unveiled Japanese soldiers’ high respect for the determination and will of Taiwan resisting forces, whose sacrifice for defending their homeland and country should be living forever in the minds of later generations.