Qualla: Taiwan Historica https://qualla.com/taiwan-historica en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:38 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/w/s/m/b/taiwan-historica-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Taiwan Historica https://qualla.com/taiwan-historica Taiwan Historica: Introduction https://qualla.com/taiwan-historica/ Photo credit Pbdragonwang, CC BY-SA 3.0. The institution has changed its name four times and its parent ministry twice, but its core purpose has remained steady since 1948: to gather, preserve, and compile the historical record of Taiwan Province. Taiwan Historica occupies a quiet corner of Zhongxing New Village, a planned administrative town in Nantou City that was itself built to serve a provincial government that no longer exists. The archive is, in a sense, the memory of a system that history has reorganized — a fitting place for an institution devoted to the past.

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]]> Sat, 13 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/s/m/b/taiwan-historica-wp/wsmb-taiwan-historica-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Taiwan Historica: Founded in the Shadow of Transition https://qualla.com/taiwan-historica/ Photo credit Solomon203, CC BY-SA 4.0. Taiwan Historica was established on June 1, 1948, under the name Taiwan Provincial Common History Historica. It was the beginning of a particularly turbulent period: the Republic of China government was still fighting the Chinese Civil War on the mainland, and Taiwan's provincial...

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]]> Sat, 13 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/s/m/b/taiwan-historica-wp/wsmb-taiwan-historica-founded-in-the-shadow-of-transition.mp3 0:06 2 full Taiwan Historica: Three Halls, One Archive https://qualla.com/taiwan-historica/ Photo credit Pbdragonwang, CC BY-SA 3.0. The physical campus of Taiwan Historica includes three principal facilities. The Folklore Artifacts Hall houses material culture from Taiwan's various communities — objects that trace daily life, ceremony, and craft across generations. The Records and Archives Hall holds the docu...

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]]> Sat, 13 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/s/m/b/taiwan-historica-wp/wsmb-taiwan-historica-three-halls-one-archive.mp3 0:06 3 full Taiwan Historica: The Village That Holds It https://qualla.com/taiwan-historica/ Photo credit Pbdragonwang, CC BY-SA 4.0. Zhongxing New Village is not a typical location for a national archive. It was built in the mid-1950s as a planned administrative capital, designed to house the Taiwan Provincial Government when it relocated from Taipei. The village was conceived along garden-city lines, with gov...

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]]> Sat, 13 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/s/m/b/taiwan-historica-wp/wsmb-taiwan-historica-the-village-that-holds-it.mp3 0:06 4 full Taiwan Historica: Memory Work in Nantou https://qualla.com/taiwan-historica/ Photo credit Pbdragonwang, CC BY-SA 3.0. For researchers, Taiwan Historica represents a primary point of access to the documentary history of the province that covers the entire island. Taiwan's history is layered and contested — indigenous peoples, Dutch and Spanish colonial periods, the Zheng dynasty, Qing rule, half ...

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