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General background information for this website
The following additional separate PDF files (all of them in A4 format) provide useful information and can be downloaded on your device(s) free of charge. The URL always leads to the most recent version of the respective file, the date referring to the time when the respective file was last edited or updated. Loading time may vary depending on the file size.
- The History of China: A Summary
- Hanyu Pinyin
- The 3000 most frequently used Chinese characters
- Short introduction to Japanese writing
- The Chinese Lunar Calendar 1900–2100 (two versions)
- Greater China's Olympic Gold
- The Constitution of the Republic of China
- Sun Yat-sen's "Three Principles of the People"
- Inaugural addresses by ROC Presidents since 1996
- Selected important texts and documents
- Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement (ECFA)
- Selected texts and documents from the PRC
- The Hong Kong files—relevant treaties and laws
- Facts about the "1992 Consensus"
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| A comprehensive and concise depiction of China's history from the beginnings to the end of imperial China. Click here to open the file. |
81 pages | File size: 4.6 MB | 2024, Oct. 16 |
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| Hanyu Pinyin | |
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| Contains detailed and concise information pertaining to the subject, including comparative tables with
other major Romanization systems like MPS, Wade Giles, and Tongyong Pinyin. Click here to open the file. |
29 pages | File size: 1.6 MB | 2021, March 15 |
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| The 3000 most frequently used Chinese characters | |
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| Includes various indices, references to the 214 Radicals, family name characters, single-character classifiers, measure words,
and relevant statistics. Click here to open the file. |
73 pages | File size: 13.7 MB | 2022, May 11 |
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| Short introduction to Japanese writing | |
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| Introduces Kanji and Kana from a sinologist's point of view, with a comparative table of selected Japanese Kanji
highlighting different simplification concepts. Click here to open the file. |
18 pages | File size: 4.2 MB | 2022, May 11 |
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| The Chinese Lunar Calendar 1900–2100 | |
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| Contains detailed and concise information pertaining to the subject, including lists of major lunar holidays
and an introduction to the Chinese zodiac. Click here to open the file. |
219 pages | File size: 31.6 MB | 2021, March 15 |
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| For a shorter version of this file (without details for each year) click here. | 17 pages | File size: 1.7 MB | 2024, June 12 |
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| Greater China's Olympic Gold | |
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| Contains detailed and concise information pertaining to the subject, including all gold medalists from China/PRC,
Taiwan/ROC and Hong Kong since 1984 (Summer Games) and 2002 (Winter Games), respectively. Click here to open the file. |
29 pages | File size: 1.8 MB | 2024, Aug. 13 |
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| The Constitution of the Republic of China | |
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| Contains the full text of the ROC Constitution, the Temporary
Provisions Effective During the Period of Communist Rebellion, and the Additional Articles
(i. e. amendments of the constitution), both in the Chinese original and the official English translation. Click here to open the file. |
71 pages | File size: 1.9 MB | 2022, Oct. 3 |
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| Sun Yat-sen's "Three Principles of the People" | |
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| Contains the full text of the Three Principles of the People (sanmin zhuyi
三民主義 )—the Chinese original by Sun Yat-sen 孫逸仙 and the official English translation by Frank W. Price as authorized by the KMT. Click here to open the file. |
156 pages | File size: 4.6 MB | 2023, June 4 |
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| Inaugural addresses by ROC Presidents since 1996 | |
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| Contains the full texts of the presidential speeches—Lee Teng-hui 1996,
Chen Shui-bian 2000 and 2004,
Ma Ying-jeou 2008 and 2012,
Tsai Ing-wen 2016 and 2020, and
Lai Ching-te 2024—held on the day they were sworn in
(Chinese original plus official English translation). Click here to open the file. |
63 pages | File size: 2.5 MB | 2024, June 9 |
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| Selected important texts and documents | |
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| Shows major treaties and other official texts pertaining to sovereignty issues of the ROC. Click here to open the file. |
175 pages | File size: 4.2 MB | 2021, Sept. 6 |
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| Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement (ECFA) | |
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| Full text of the English translation and the Chinese original of the controversial bilateral landmark agreement concluded
between Taiwan's SEF and China's ARATS in 2010. Click here to open the file. |
69 pages | File size: 3.2 MB | 2023, March 26 |
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| Selected texts and documents from the PRC | |
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| A compilation of relevant texts issued by PRC authorities between 1958 and 2022 concerning the Taiwan question. Click here to open the file. |
102 pages | File size: 3.1 MB | 2022, Aug. 13 |
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| The Hong Kong files—relevant treaties and laws | |
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| Full texts of the English translations and the Chinese originals of several major documents pertaining to the PRC's rule over Hong Kong. Click here to open the file. |
157 pages | File size: 3.7 MB | 2024, July 5 |
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| Facts about the "1992 Consensus" | |
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| Includes explanations and contemporary reports of a ROC government publication pertaining to the subject. Click here to open the file. |
14 pages | File size: 1.6 MB | 2021, Sept. 20 |
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Other selected files
| ◉ | The Greater China Factbook (大中華百科全書). 668 pages, published in August 2007 by Taiwan Elite Press 時英出版社, ISBN-10: 9867762975, ISBN-13: 978-986-7762-97-9, OCLC: 264977502. ⇒ Table of contents Preface Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Errata |
| ◉ | Politicians in the Republic of China (中華民國人物百科) ✿ Vol. 1: Register and explanations [1,157 pages (A5), file size 33.7 MB] ✿ Vol. 2: Texts and documents [557 pages (A5), file size 8.4 MB] |
| ◉ | Frühe taiwanesische Heimatliteratur. Zhong Lihe (1915-1960). Master thesis (in German), 97 pages, completed in November 1993. Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Fakultät für Ostasienwissenschaften, Sprache und Literatur Chinas, supervised by Prof. Dr. Helmut Martin 馬漢茂 教授. Additional file (in English) containing images pertaining to the master thesis. |
| ◉ | CV of the chief researcher |
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◆ Files from outside sources
The copyright of PDF files from outside sources as listed below belongs to the respective file creator or author, and the contents of these files or parts of them can be re-published only with the permission of the copyright holder.
Statistical yearbooks
◉ DGBAS-published Statistical Yearbooks of the ROC, 2006-2024
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| 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 |
| 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 |
| 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | [2025] |
◉ NDC-published Urban and Regional Development Statistics (URDS) yearbooks, 1975-2024
◉ EA-published Energy Handbooks 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025
◉ Taiwan Statistical Data Books 2002-2019 (by CUSA / CEPD / NDC)
| 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 |
| 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 |
| 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 |
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MOFA publications
◉ The Foreign Relations Yearbook R.O.C. (Taiwan) 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 🪓
◉ Taiwan at a Glance 2025-2026 (editions in 15 different languages, produced by MOFA) 🪓
Older available editions of the annual booklet "Taiwan at a Glance" in English are the following.
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Other selected files
◉ "Freedom in the World" reports by Freedom House
◉ "Global Peace Index", compiled annually by the Australia-based international think tank Institute for Economics and Peace.
| ◉ | George Watson Barclay [1954]—Colonial Development and Population in Taiwan |
| ◉ | George H. Kerr [1965]—Formosa Betrayed |
| ◉ | Günter Whittome [1991]—Taiwan 1947: The Uprising against the Kuomintang", available in English and German |
| ◉ | Christoph Henke LL.D. [2005]—Das chinesische Anti-Sezessionsgesetz |
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