During the Japanese colonial period, the famous poet Wei Qingde was respected by the people for his performance of Chinese poetry, and his careers were such as a reporter of the first Taiwan newspaper and a director of the Chinese department as important positions of media for more than three decades that his survival of the era had across three regimes, and his role of diversity showed the different oriented of performance to the future generations for research. The modern scholars look carefully for the research results of Wei Qingde, but the research for the role and value of journalist is lacked. Therefore, his periodical articles are the research result to make a comprehensive arrangement as the beginning for trying a preliminary investigation of Wei Qingde’s periodical articles.
The use of research methods in the Taiwan’s mass media development analysis during the Japanese colonial period is to apply for literature analysis, collecting, analyzing the research result of modern scholars and the retention of the relevant literature in the Japanese colonial period as a creative background of study. The format of text is to apply for narrative theory and stylistic analysis. The contents of research text are based on readings, finishing, classification, and interpretation for Wei Qingde’s newspaper articles to use the induction method for the different works that classify topics into three categories such as historical memory, character narrative, and tourism narration.
Chapter One is introduction: the first section is the research motivation and problematic; the second section is the result analysis of the previous research; the third section is the scope of research and the research methods; the fourth section is the analysis and discussion of Wei Qingde from a teacher to a journalist to the road of self-realization pursuit. Chapter Two is to discuss with the text format of Wei Qingde’s periodical articles: the first section is the stylistic analysis; the second section is the narrative characteristics; the third section is the narrative strategy etc. Chapter Three to Five is to discuss the different topics of Wei Qingde’s newspapers and periodicals. Chapter Three is the historical memory, including the different cultural memory, the world narrative, and reshaping Taiwan Island etc. Chapter Four is the character narrative to explore the different ethnic groups, including “disabilities” ethnic groups, female figures, soldiers and so on. Chapter Five is tourism narration such as the evolution from traditional travel to the modern tourism and leisure, the island’s tourism, the outside island’s tourism etc. to be discussed.
Chapter Six is to rearrange the previous chapters and classify into four conclusions: First, Wei Qingde’s newspaper articles on the inheritance and new changes of traditional ancient writings, including the preservation of traditional ancient literary heritage and the emergence of modern news style structure. Second, the connotation of Wei Qingde’s civilization enlightenment is inherited from traditional Sinology and innovation to transmit the Western new learning for selecting. Third, Wei Qingde as a co-writer to serve by poetry creation in the colonial government, and the other side shows that persuades the colonial government with faint mood. Four, the social framework of Wei Qingde’s newspaper articles shows that the pursuit of prosperity of island's modernization is pursued by the legitimacy of the colonial regime, and the "self-conscious" to be loyal to the Japanese emperor and so on. Finally, the fifth section describes the future prospect of this topic.