Yang Yun-ping(楊雲萍) was one of the founders of the “Everyone”, the first vernacular literary magazine in Taiwan. He was mentored by Kawabata Yasunari and Kan Kikuchi when studied at the Institute of Japanese Culture in Japan, and that made great impact on his creative style. Yang began to dedicate himself to researches on Taiwan history and culture after returning to Taiwan, and got a teaching job at Department of History, National Taiwan University in 1947. The Yung Yun-ping Papers contains various forms of correspondence with government agencies, non-government organizations, and individuals as well as his manuscripts, with coverage date from the mid period of Japanese rule to post-war period.

The "Yang Yun-ping papers" contains his manuscript, correspondence with friends or organizations, and personal collection, such as other celebrities’ manuscripts, documents, cards, photos and postcards. The collection spans the mid period of Japanese rule to the period of post-war.

Yang Yun-ping’s collection of manuscript contains his literary works, such as articles, rhymes, and screenplays, write manuscripts, essays, letters with family members, and notes are also included. He also kept his correspondence with friends who were the literati or scholars from Taiwan, China and Japan, and half of the correspondence are between him and Japanese friends. Yang Yun-ping loved reading and publishing articles, and most  of his correspondence with organizations are invitations for papers, information about author’s remuneration, advertisement letter, and general communication. In addition, there are some letters from the "Imperial China dedication will" established before the World War II. AT that time, the Taiwan Governor asked local scholars and laterati to write articles to promote Japan Government’s policy, and Yang Yun-ping was one of them.

System of Arrangement

Being arranged in accordance with nature and subject of documents, there are 4 series in the “Yang Yun-ping Papers”, including "personal manuscripts", “correspondence with individuals", " correspondence with organizations ", and "personal collection" formed by 19 files, 896 items, with total number about 6,000 pages. Collections are listed below.

YP00 個人手稿 Personal Manuscripts
YP00_01 文稿 Literary Works
YP00_02 書墨作品 Calligraphy
YP00_03 詩作及歌謠 Poems and Rhymes
YP00_04 研究心得隨筆 Notes from Research
YP00_05 讀書筆札 Notes from Reading
YP00_06 家庭書信 Letters to Family
YP00_07 古籍抄錄 Transcription of Ancient Books
YP00_08 目錄雜抄 Transcription of Table of Contents
YP00_09 偶記短箋 Essays
YP01 個人往來函件 Correspondence with Individuals
YP01_01 臺灣人物 Taiwanese People
YP01_02 外國人物 Foreigners
YP02 機關團體往來函件 Correspondence with Organizations
YP02_01 臺灣機關團體：戰前 Taiwanese Organizations: Before the End of World War II
YP02_02 臺灣機關團體：戰後 Taiwanese Organizations: After the End of World War II
YP02_03 外國機關團體 Foreign Organizations
YP03 個人收藏 Personal Collection
YP03_01 收藏手稿 Manuscripts
YP03_02 收藏文件 Documents
YP03_03 收藏照片 Photographs
YP03_04 收藏明信片 Postcards
YP03_05 收藏圖書報刊 Newspapers and Magazines

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