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Ts'ao Yung-ho

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Ts'ao Yung-ho
Tào vĩnh cùng
Born(1920-10-27)27 October 1920
Shirin Town,Shichisei District,Taihoku Prefecture,Taiwan, Empire of Japan
Died12 September 2014(2014-09-12)(aged 93)
Taipei,Taiwan
NationalityTaiwanese
AwardsOrder of Orange-Nassau
Scientific career
FieldsTaiwanese history
InstitutionsNational Taiwan University
Academia Sinica

Ts'ao Yung-ho(Chinese:Tào vĩnh cùng;pinyin:Cáo Yǒnghé;Wade–Giles:Ts'ao2Yung3-ho2;Pe̍h-ōe-jī:Chô Éng-hô;27 October 1920 – 12 September 2014) was a Taiwanesehistorianknown for his work on the earlyhistory of Taiwan.[1]Anautodidactandpolyglotwho failed his university entrance examinations, Ts'ao went on to become the preeminent Taiwanese expert on the Dutch and Spanish colonial eras in Taiwan.[1][2]

Early life

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Ts'ao was born in modern-dayTaipei City'sShilin Districtin 1920, to a family that had produced several generations of educators.[3]In 1939 he graduated from Taihoku Prefecture Second Junior High School, but failed his university entrance exams.[2][4]Undaunted, he sought outIwao SeiichiofTaihoku Imperial University,who had spent time in England and the Netherlands learning the languages. Iwao taught Ts'aoDutch,which was essential for Ts'ao to read the archived material from theDutch Formosaera.[4]In 1947,Yang Yun-ping[zh]hired Ts'ao as a librarian at the university.[2]The position gave Ts'ao access to a huge range of materials he would otherwise have been unable to see.[5]

Academic career

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Ts'ao studied a number of languages in pursuit of his understanding of early Taiwanese history, meaning he could make use of ten languages:Taiwanese,Japanese,English,German,Mandarin Chinese,French,Dutch,Spanish,Portuguese,andLatin.[6]The long-running historical journal, theTaiwan Bank Periodical(Chinese:Đài Loan ngân hàng tập san quý;pinyin:Táiwān Yínháng Jìkān;Pe̍h-ōe-jī:Tâi-oân Gîn-hâng Kùi-khan) was masterminded by Ts'ao, while he was also heavily involved in the monumental series of Chinese source material on Taiwan and Fu gian history, theTaiwan Documents Collection(Chinese:Đài Loan văn hiến bộ sách;pinyin:Táiwān Wénxiàn Cóngkān;Pe̍h-ōe-jī:Tâi-oân Bûn-hiàn Chông-khan).[5]Ts'ao retired from National Taiwan University in 1985.[2][1]Over the course of his life, Ts'ao assembled a 20,000 volume library, classed as one of the finest collections on theDutch East India Companyin the world.[4]Ts'ao was named a research fellow atAcademia Sinicain 1998, becoming the institution's oldest research fellow and the fourth to obtain the position without completing a university degree.[2]In 2002 Ts'ao was made an Officer of theOrder of Orange-Nassaufor his contributions in documenting the history ofDutch Formosa.[4]Ts'ao died of multiple organ failure in Taipei on 12 September 2014, aged 93.[1]

Works

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  • Ts'ao, Yung-ho (1979).Taiwan zaoqi lishi yanjiu (Research into Early Taiwan History)(in Chinese). Taipei: Lianjing.ISBN978-957-08-0698-4.
  • Ts'ao, Yung-ho (2000).Taiwan zaoqi lishi yanjiu xuji (Research into Early Taiwan History: Continued)(in Chinese). Taipei: Lianjing.ISBN957-08-2153-1.

References

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  1. ^abcdRachel Lin, Tang Chia-ling and Jake Chung (14 September 2014)."Taiwan history expert Tsao dies".Taipei Times.Retrieved27 September2014.
  2. ^abcdeChen, Melody (12 August 2003)."History of a Taiwan historian".Taipei Times.Retrieved31 December2018.
  3. ^Han Cheung (6 September 2020)."Taiwan in Time: The self-taught historian".Taipei Times.Retrieved5 September2020.
  4. ^abcdTull, Erwin (2006-12-05)."Nederland vormde geschiedenis Taiwan"(in Dutch). Provinciale Zeeuwse Courant.Retrieved2009-08-15.
  5. ^abBlussé, Leonard,ed. (2003).Around and About Dutch Formosa.Taipei: Southern Materials Center. p. 2.ISBN986-7602-00-5.
  6. ^Huang, Yuan-quan.Tự học điển phạm: Đài Loan sử nghiên cứu tiên phong tào vĩnh cùng(in Chinese).[permanent dead link]
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