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Abstract This thesis is a review of literature through out the Ming Chi period and attempt to explore every element of editing design of TaiWan Jih Jih Shin Pao (in terms of forms and contents). To organize and analysis the existing data of editorial design which was concern of the Japanese in order to understand the development of the early stage of the Taiwan newspaper industry . The Conclusions for this Research are as follows: 1.A well equipped company organization: Following staff problems in the early stage of growth, the government owned newspaper press was changed into a cooperative company. The founding capital was ten thousand dollars. The Taiwan Viceroy Office(臺灣總督府)used the “loyalty women group” to invest and control the newspaper press operation. It was well equipped when it was established. In addition, the newspaper company purchased a high speed rolling printer from Europe in Ming Chi year 33 which made the whole equipment even more reliable. The quality of the printing was better and more perfect. 2.Volumn of news print and widespread distribution: With an increasing volumn of news print distribution became widespread. This included American, British and Southeast Asia countries. The volumn of news print was more than 5,305,234 per time. The influence of this newspaper at the time was quite substantial. 3.The modernized of the newspaper form and content: There was a dramatic difference in the terms of format between the before and after the period of Ming Chi. The editing design of the TaiWan Jih Jih Shin Pao which was published after the Ming Chi period was similar to contemporary news in terms of the size of layout, the size of letter, column format and advertisment. The contents had classification for novel, column, report and so on. 4.Photography and print technology influenced the presentation of design news work: With the advance printing technology for newspaper the illustrations became more diverse and in the sense of visual transmission created a contemporary design style. 5.The influence of design editing brought back by the Mr. SO Wu Shan Bing Wei (守屋善兵衛) after he returned from an information gathering trip to Europe included: The “Art Deco”. This was very popular in Europe and made a full impact on the editing design of this newspaper. 6.Increase of Advertisement layout: This became the most effective way to promote merchandise. For example, Wu Fu Ophthalmic Medicine Co. (五福目藥) had an advert requiring the very best advertisement art work. This attracted people towards commercial design activities. The art design was no longer the business of the newspaper layout designer alone. 7.“TaiWan Jih Jih Shin Pao” emphasised holidays. They increased the pages of their advertisement layout in order to draw the adverts from the commerce and they also made the commercial layout look more interesting by adding an edge broader orplacing the adverts into one particular promotional theme. 8.Illustrations for the column fully presented the social life of Taiwan people: For example: a column was called “One day one profession”. It started from Ming Chi year 42 March 10 to year 42 April 9. It used a very simple sketch approach to describe the simple life of Taiwan people . In summary, we can find that the whole design style of “T’aiWan Jih Jih Shin Pao” is dramatically influenced by information brought back by the chairman of the press from Europe. Enrichment by the use of the edge broader in the layout established a reputation here. In relation to the development of newspapers in the world there was over two hundred and fifty years between the earliest newspaper published in Ming Chi year 4 (1871)which was called Pao Chi Shin Wen (報知新聞) and the earliest newspaper “Raiputriga tuaitunku” published in Germany in 1609 for daily distribution. The Western newspaper industry obviously had the earlier start. However, After the Ming Chi Period, Japan was very anxious to learn from Western society and this gave the Japanese the motivation to improve the Taiwan newspaper industry.
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