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Training and Transboundary Activities of Taiwan’s Veterinarians during the Japanese Ruling EraDr.Chia-san Shen
Department of Liberal Arts of National Open University
This study focuses on Taiwan’s veterinary medicine before 1950, to illustrate: First, training courses and overseas
exchanges involving Taiwan’s veterinarians, schools and organizations. Second, the duties of Taiwan’s veterinarians. Third, theflow of human resources from veterinary practice to human disease technicians. Fourth, a checklist of key names of Taiwan’sveterinarians and events in veterinary medicine.
During my research, I extensively visited the most important cities for veterinary history, and investigated and analyzed
the materials of the related institutions. In particular, I visited: A. The History Gallery of Azabu University, and then contacted
Prof. Hong Kean, Ooi and interviewed with Prof. Chitoshi Itakura, who are well known in the Asian and Japanese fields ofveterinary medicine; B. Directors of Taiwan Kyokai (Tokyo), who had experience with Taiwan’s and Manchuria’s animal carebefore 1950; and C. The History Gallery of Kyushu University, where I visited Prof. Etsuro Orita, who gave me a precious
name list of foreign students at Kyushu University before 1945.
The study found three points initially as below. 1. Following a long history of veterinary medicine, the modern husbandry
and veterinary science of Japan began in the years 1880-1890. When Taiwan began to be ruled by Japan in 1895, modern
veterinary medicine was also brought to Taiwan with the Japanese army and bureaucracy, at the same time as it was adopted inJapan. The rough technological level and educational system of Japan territory and Taiwan encouraged Taiwanese to work andstudy in Japan (similar situations happened in Manchuria and Korea after the 1930s). Within 10 years, Taiwanese veterinary
students on government scholarships or self-financed were appearing in Tokyo, Shikoku, Kyushu etc. In the northernmost
Hokkaido and Tohoku regions, many overseas students from the north part of China in the early years, while Taiwaneseveterinary students showed up after the 1920s. Due both to differences in climatic conditions and animal species between
Japan’s northern, frigid zone and Taiwan’s sub-tropical and tropical zones, as well as to species exchanges, veterinarians
expanded their medical subjects. 2. There were veterinarians and ‘veterinarian trainees’ (講習生) in both Taiwan’s and Japan’sveterinarian systems. The latter were like technicians, and the former were real doctors. The trainees often changed their career,
becoming doctors, microbiologists, zoologists, businessmen, etc. The former rarely switched their jobs, and they had frequent
overseas contacts. 3. The Renaming Policy after the late 1930s made it difficult for researchers to identify whether veterinarians
were Taiwanese nor not in class memorial books, and also made it hard for researchers to chronicle the complete overseas
Taiwanese veterinarians name lists.
Through the help from your foundation and the above researchers, I focused on the aforementioned research andpresented two oral papers as listed below. Now I am working on analyzing systems (institutions) and personnel (influences)with two paths, and will try to publish in professional journals in the near future. The papers’ topics are as listed below too.

Publication of the Results of Research Project:
Verbal Presentation (Date, Venue, Name of Conference, Title of Presentation, Presenter, etc.)【Presentation】
1.

Chia san, Shen, ‘A Study of Food Safety and Health Administration during the Japanese Ruling Period - with aFocus on Breeding, Quarantine and Registration.’（ 從育種、 檢疫與登錄看日治時期食品安全與健康治理）
Workshop: Crossover on Food Safety and Medicine（ 食安與醫療跨界工作坊） .
July 29, 2016 (Fri.), (at) Taipei City: National Yang Ming University.

2.

Chia san, Shen, ‘Animal Control in the Early Days of the Japanese Ruling Period: with a Focus on Livestock,Quarantine and Dirt.’（ 日治初期的動物控管： 從畜產、 檢疫與污物談起）
Environmental History Workshop - 2016 Ⅲ（ 第三次環境史工作坊） .
August 19, 2016 (Fri.), (at) Taipei City: Institute of Taiwan History, Academia Sinica.

Thesis (Name of Journal and its Date, Title and Author of Thesis, etc.)(expect・Under processing)
1.

Chia san, Shen, ‘Training and Administrative Systems of Taiwan Veterinarian Medicine in the Japanese Ruling
Period (日治時代台灣獸醫的培訓與制度建立）,’ “Taiwan Wen Hsien (臺灣文獻)”（THCI CORE, Level
2）.

2. Chia san, Shen, ‘Transboundary Activities and Social Influence of Taiwan’s Veterinarians during the JapaneseRuling Era.（日治時代台灣獸醫的跨境活動與其社會影響）,’ “Taiwan Historical Research (臺灣史研究)”（THCI CORE, Level 1）.

Book (Publisher and Date of the Book, Title and Author of the Book, etc.)