英文摘要 |
Previous studies on Dangwai (non-Kuomintang) magazines can be divided into two categories: 1) verification of their political stance by analyzing the remarks of the magazines; and 2) an exploration of how Dangwai magazines promoted the development of Taiwan’s democratization. However, researchers have always overlooked the fact that Dangwai magazines were printed publications that need circulated and sold in the market. The content of any opinions and propositions had to be carried by the media; thus, solely discussing the content without examining the media appears biased. Moreover, analyses with an excessive focus on content merely present heroism, while ignoring the fact that the speech restraint that transcended the party-state system was overcome by numerous unsung heroes in the production of Dangwai magazines. The scholars argued that during the martial law period, intelligence units such as the Taiwan garrison command wantonly banned Dangwai magazines in order to hinder readers from purchasing such magazines, thereby preventing the dissemination of non-Kuomintang information. The inability of readers to access actual publications obstructed the spread and influence of radical speech and truth in the communication network, in turn rendering them incapable of swaying the readers’and voters’political intention and them to take action. Following the implementation of the Archives Act in 2002, the National Archives Administration has continuously acquired surveillance data targeting Dangwai magazines created by intelligence agencies through the deployment of informants. The purposes of these political archives are to learn the contents of the magazines in advance, verify the authors’identities, and identify the operators involved in the production and publication of Dangwai magazines, enabling the government to expand its monitoring network and ban such magazines. Nevertheless, despite their original objectives in monitoring, these archives inadvertently left behind various details on the production of Dangwai magazines. This study employs the communication circuit by Darnton as the analytical framework, in which Dangwai magazines were regarded as the products of a long production process, thereby serving as the analysis basis for this batch of political archives. The production process of Dangwai magazines was not merely the materialization of ideas; it also involved labor production that required time, space, and considerable physical effort. By focusing on the working principle of“digging roots, cutting roots, and sweeping leaves”of the Taiwan garrison command, this study explains how the Taiwan garrison command conducted its banning operations. To ensure the successful banning of magazines, the Taiwan garrison command first adopted various methods to ambush informants in the targeted magazines and identify in advance details such as the content and authorship of the magazines, the location of their printing sites, their distribution channels, and the revenue of each issue. In addition to planting informants to acquire intelligence information, intelligence units also obtained relevant information through approaches such as monitoring telephone calls and intercepting fax information. The Taiwan garrison command could only conduct seizure operations at the magazine production sites, such as the plate making plants, printing plants, and binding factories after securing the aforementioned information. In order to ensure a watertight censorship of Dangwai magazines, the Taiwan garrison command also seized the vehicles transporting such magazines by establishing random checkpoints or standing guard outside retail bookstores to deter readers from making purchases. |