摘要
圖書查禁由來已久，並非始於1950年代，本文以1950年代的圖書查禁作為探討，因為這是政府遷臺後第一個十年，遷臺後的國民黨檢討國共內戰失敗的原因，認為與文藝工作的失敗有很大的關係；在痛定思痛下，特別加強對文化思想的控制，所以這段時期的圖書查禁政策，不再僅僅對左翼思想、共產言論內容上的查禁，它擴張到只要作者附匪、陷匪的作品，不論內容如何一律查禁。 本文主要以警備總部與臺灣省政府編印1982年出版的《查禁圖書目錄》為研究對象，該目錄收錄了從1951年到1982年間被查禁的圖書，筆者從目錄中，找出1951年至1959年間被查禁的圖書，由這些被查禁的書目中，檢視1950年代查禁圖書的特色；本文在進入主題前，必先敘述一下1950年代臺灣坊間究竟流通了那些圖書？為什麼要查禁？而查禁工作是由什麼單位主導？除檢視究竟有那些圖書遭到查禁外，同時歸結被查禁的原因；當「作者陷匪」與「匪書」被劃上等號時，對臺灣的圖書出版與閱讀，又將造成那些影響？
並列摘要
The Suppressed Publications had long existed before the 1950s. However, the book-ban of the 1950s deserves close examination because it was the first decade after the national government moved to Taiwan. The KMT found that one of the causes leading to the failure of the fight against the communists was the policy regarding literary and artistic work. It was then decided to start book-ban to control the thinking of the people-not only were the books on communism banned but those which echoed similar ideas and whose authors stayed in communist region. This paper uses the Catalogue of Banned Books published by Taiwan Garrison Command and Provincial Government in 1982. The catalogue includes the books banned between 1951and 1982, but this article only examined those banned between 1951 and 1959 to determine the common characteristics of the books. In order to look into this topic, the paper has to describe the books popular at that time, to understand why some books were banned, and by which department. In addition, what were the effects of banning books. When the authors labeled as communists equals to communist writing, what were the effect on publication and reading in Taiwan?