The Taiwan Research Unit of the Ruhr University Bochum, the East Asia Department of the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz (SBB), and the National Taipei University of Education (NTUE) will join forces to work on a publicly accessible photo database project. NTUE is the oldest modern educational institution in Taiwan and has produced many images in its 127-year history, which record various aspects of student life and teachers’ education. In the late 2000s, these pictures were digitalized and are stored in the Alumnus Service Center but lack a public portal to access them. With the generous support of the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation (CCKF), we are now able to create an image database with cross-references to existing databases (CrossAsia, etc.) through keywords and extensive annotations for each keyword.
紅樓 Red building 1940
校舍前景 Front view of the school building
芳蘭山近き In the vicinity of Hōransan
吾等が學び舎 The building where we studied
© Source: National Taipei University of Education. Alumni / History / Development
北教大校友中心暨校史館 2017,https://alumnus.ntue.edu.tw/activity/gallery/21.
In collaboration with Dr. Chien Hung-yi and the National Taipei University of Education (NTUE), the Taiwan Research Unit opened a photo exhibition on Taiwan’s educational history at the university library of Ruhr University Bochum on September 30th, 2024. The displays feature images from two archives, capturing key moments in Taiwan’s educational history across elementary, middle, and higher education, as well as vocational training initiatives.
The first part of the exhibition displays photos from the archive of Taiwan's first language teaching and teacher training institute, the predecessor of today’s National Taipei University of Education (NTUE). These photographs are part of the digitization project led by Chien Hung-yi, Ho I-lin, and Christine Moll-Murata, “Broadening the Horizon for Taiwan Studies through Visualization: The Photography Database of the National Taipei University of Education” funded by the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation.
The second part is based on the the archive of the Japanese doctor and educator Takagi Tomoe (1858–1943) and his wife Minna, related to his work at the Taipei Medical School. The Takagi archive is currently being digitized by Dr. Hsu Yu-yin as part of the Bochum part of the BMBF project “Taiwan als Pionier: Erziehung als Motor der Moderne”.
Both collections will be made available on the CrossAsia portal „Digitale Sammlungen“ of the Berlin State Library.
The exhibition will be on display until November 15th, 2024. For more impressions on the exhibition opening please see the pictures below.