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During the long “Martial Law Period” in Taiwan, the freedom of press, speech, and thought were all restricted under the horrific atmosphere of “White Terror”. Distinct from general children’s literature, encyclopedias for kids should be written with the foundation of the rigorous academic knowledge.This “knowledge” is nevertheless not immutable. The selection of the content of the Encyclopedia for Kids Series has been entirely distinct throughout different era.
The content of different era of the Encyclopedia for Kids
Since 1996, the jounior hight school of ”Local Education” was officially established, and in 1998, the elementary school was followed up, so that the local teaching activities became part of jounior hight and elementary school curriculum. The publication of the textbook ＂Introduction to Taiwan--The Society Section＂ in 1997. Before that, Taiwanese children couldn’t access the information about Taiwan from the standard school education, therefore, the encyclopedias for kids were important sources for them to learn about their homeland.
This dissertation focuses on three main themes: the establishment of the 1984 “Children’s Han Shen Encyclopedia＂, cultural connotations and the description of Taiwan; this analysis stretches from the post-war era to the 1980s and looks at the local children′s encyclopedia and the evolution of the content concerning Taiwan.
From the analysis, we discover that the political identity of the children’s encyclopedia is still as present as it was before the abolition of the Temporary Provisions Effective During the Period of National Mobilization for Suppression of the Communist Rebellion, which is the act of not recognizing the establishment of the government of the People Republic of China. Within this act of suppression, the changes that happened on the Mainland after 1949 could not be discussed as if the other regime did not exist at all. Cultural connotations were in place to promote Han cultural identity and to even discriminate against other cultures. Additionally, with the economic development came environmental damage. Eventually, people began to focus on the concept of ecological conservation, with many children encyclopedias stressing the importance of environmental conservation.
The central point of this article is to explore “The Children’s Han Shen Encyclopedia”, from the first edition to today there has been twenty-nine editions, timeless and notable, in the center of Chinese identity with solid investigation-based field work. Sound Publishing House founded the ＂Han Shen magazine＂ period to lay the foundation. ＂The Children’s Han Shen Encyclopedia＂ itself contains a large number of local Taiwanese themes, which has continued from the concept of the early editions. There are also many innovative places, and it has been said that it is an extremely good example of a local Taiwanese encyclopedia. | en_US |