知識推廣與殖民教化：以台中州立圖書館的運作為中心（1931-1939）

台灣近代圖書館的發展始於1901年台灣協會在台北淡水館內創辦的「私立台灣文庫」。由於日本推行明治維新，引進歐美圖書館經營模式，在1914年創立台灣第一所公共圖書館「台灣總督府圖書館」，之後隨著1923年台灣總督府頒布「公私立圖書館規則」，台中州政府即在該年成立台中州立圖書館。至1930年代全島公私立圖書館達80餘所，是日本殖民地時期公共圖書館發展的興盛期。殖民地時期公共圖書館館史的研究，雖有張圍東、林景淵、曾堃賢等學者將圖書館的發展背景與概況呈現出較完整的全貌，然而大多關注在台灣總督府圖書館或台灣島內圖書館整體發展概況的討論，對於無論在規模、藏書量、閱讀人數具有代表性與突破性的台中州立圖書館的研究仍舊存在空白。本研究在前人研究基礎上，採歷史研究法及文獻分析法進行資料蒐集、統整、分析，主要以1931年創刊至1939年期間有推展館務意旨與各項活動的文字記錄《台中州立圖書館報》為主，並參考日本殖民地時期各類相關文獻、雜誌刊物與報紙、言論，討論該館在推動社會教化與知識傳播上發揮的功能與成效。經由這樣的研究，除對日本殖民政策方向有進一步瞭解，也能呈現地方公共圖書館的角色與對台灣人的知識啟蒙之影響與意義。

關鍵字

台中州立圖書館；台中州立圖書館報；圖書館史；日本殖民統治時期；殖民政策

並列摘要

The first modern library in Taiwan was the privately owned Taiwan Archive in Taipei's Tamshui Hall, founded by the Taiwan Association in 1901. In 1914 the Japanese government established the first public library in Taiwan, the Taiwan Sōtokufu (Taiwan Governor's Library) Library, based on the Euro-American library model introduced to Japan during the Meji Restoration. The Office of the Governor-General of Taiwan soon enacted the Public and Private Libraries Regulations in 1923 and the Taichung Government decided to found the Taichung State Library in the same year. The number of libraries across the whole island reached 80 in 1930s and that was a development prosperity of public library during the Japanese colonial period. Previous studies on Taiwan's public library histories of Japanese colonial period have mostly outlined the overall development of libraries, especially focused on the Taiwan Sōtokufu Library, for instance the research by Wei-Dong Chang (張圍東), Cing-Yuan Lin (林景淵) and Kun-Xian Tseng (曾堃賢) et al. In contrast, there were few researches into Taichung State Library although its size, collections and patrons had made it become one of significant public libraries in Taiwan. This research collects and analyzes the data through history research methods and archival analysis. The research data is mainly collected from the Taichung State Library Newsletter publised from 1931 to 1939. There was a lot of information about the library events and promotion programs showed on the newsletter. Relevant archival data, magazines, newspapers and public discourses are examined in order to analyze the effects of public education and knowledge transmission by the library. This paper aims to explore the library policy in the Japanese colonial period and to further reveal the impact of a local public library on the intellectual enlightenment of Taiwanese society.