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New Publication Announcement: 𝘗𝘐𝘊𝘛𝘜𝘙𝘐𝘕𝘎 𝘛𝘈𝘐𝘞𝘈𝘕: 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘈𝘴𝘢𝘩𝘪 𝘚𝘩𝘪𝘮𝘣𝘶𝘯 𝘗𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘗𝘩𝘰𝘵𝘰 𝘚𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴


Shu-min CHUNG and Toshihiko KISHI eds., 𝘗𝘐𝘊𝘛𝘜𝘙𝘐𝘕𝘎 𝘛𝘈𝘐𝘞𝘈𝘕: 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘈𝘴𝘢𝘩𝘪 𝘚𝘩𝘪𝘮𝘣𝘶𝘯 𝘗𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘗𝘩𝘰𝘵𝘰 𝘚𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴, Taipei: Academia Sinica, January 2021.

https://www.ith.sinica.edu.tw/publish_look.php?l=c&no=All&id=258&page=1&ps=20

This book shows how 1,126 photographs (of which 462 are published in this book) relating to Taiwan before and during the war from a total of 71,722 photo stocks , the so-called Fuji Warehouse photo stock. They depicted the social conditions of urban and non-urban Taiwan in both wartime and peacetime and were used by the Asahi Shimbun in its media activities.
And it is a book as a result of an international collaboration between Prof. Chung leading the Colonial History Group of the Institute of Taiwan History and Prof. Kishi of Kyoto University.


Contents:
Director’s Preface (Hsueh-chi Hsu)
“Summary of Taiwan-related Photographs in the Asahi Shimbun Fuji Warehouse Data” (Li-jiao Wang and Shu-min Chung)
“Press Photos Stocks possessed by Asahi Shimbun and the Information Network during Pre-War and Wartime Taiwan” (𝗧𝗼𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗵𝗶𝗸𝗼 𝗞𝗶𝘀𝗵𝗶)

1. Politics and Diplomacy (Shu-min Chung)
2. Culture, Education and Health (Shu-min Chung and Li-jiao Wang)
3. Industry and Economics (Cheng-hui Lin)
4. Landscape and Folklore (Zheng-yuan Chen )
5. Indigenous Peoples (Wen-Liang Tseng)

List of Photographs of Taiwan Relations from Asahi Shimbun, Fuji Warehouse Data (𝗧𝗼𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗵𝗶𝗸𝗼 𝗞𝗶𝘀𝗵𝗶)

Editorial Note (Shu-min Chung)

Remark: This photo book will be exhibited at the International Book Fair in Frankfurt (Frankfurt Buchmesse 2021)in 20-24 October, 2021 as a selection of books by Taiwan Academia Sinica.