2012 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
The Study of Archives of Taiwan Governor-General
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22520651
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Historical studies in general
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| Research Institution | Chukyo University |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Project Period (FY) |
2010 – 2012
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| Keywords | 台湾総督府文書 / 台湾総督府公文類纂 / 台湾総督府 / 史料学 / 台湾史料 / 近代公文書 / 文書学 / アーカイブズ学 |
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| Research Abstract |
This study aims to analyze the archives of Taiwan Governor-General. Taiwan Governor-General possesses all kinds of governmental organizations such as a Governor-General Office, localgovernments, councils, courts, prisons, military forces, monopoly bureau, government-owned companies and so on. Therefore, the archives of Taiwan Governor-General occupy a unique position in the historical materials from the perspective of modern governance.The archives of Taiwan Governor-General in existence consist of two groups. One is conducted by the Correspondence Division, the Secretary of Taiwan Governor-General according to the regulation of preserving documents and is preserved administratively and systematically well. The other is used by departments of Taiwan Governor-General at that time and is received intact before being compiled or discarded. The form of the two kinds of archives makes the archives of Taiwan Governor-General distinct from general systems of archives management.From the perspective of modern archive studies, this study demonstrates the structure of archives of administrative organizations in modern Japan’s and Taiwan Governor-General’s government, which had rare but significant historical materials.
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