Taipei Cultural Bureau

[Dr. Dragon] [Chinese Business Association]
[TKU Information center] [Taipei Cultural Bureau]
[Yu Nong Elementary] [Womans' alignance
[Mr.Shee] [parents association]

The Taipei Cultural Bureau is an academic organization which mainly does historic research.  We preserve and research important and precious information and date every year.  This year, ( 2000 ) for example, we did the following:

1. we compiled and edited the "oral history of Taipei City" and finished two volumes.

2. in order to preserve and organize the information both present and past, we publicly encouraged and hired scholars and experts to contribute their expertise and helped write and edit the "Taipei Culture History" which records all information this great city of ours.

All of the above publications were sent to different departments of the Taipei City Government and congress, public libraries, and other related and interested institutions.

3. We hold conferences on the history of Taiwan and workshops in order to let our future generation remember heroic deeds of our ancestors and understand the flow of culture and how the torch must be passed on.

4. there are also six "active historic tours" which is open to the public, completely free of charge, for groups of tourists who are interested to know about the six different historic sites which include the old port, the ancient temple, and the old market squares.

5. oral history forum is another activity that we hold in order to make sure that history does no get lost, and so we hold four seminars and forums each year, with a pre-determined topic, and invite related scholars and elderly to find precious information from the memory of those who remember.

6. year-round exhibition.

7. prospects: in order to elevate the image of our institution, to provide citizens with more convenient access and services, we plan to categorize our entire collection and database and put them into website form, which will be finished in February, 2001. In this project, we are extremely careful in handling the information and would like to give special thanks to Mr. Jiang for his kind help.