Taiwanese academic circle's research on China's maritime history was concentrate d on specific periods and fields, rather than being evenly done owing to limit of r esearch workforce. It's so especially when the mainstream of research on maritime history shifted from China's maritime history to Taiwan's maritime history. As a res ult, some scholars pointed out that the biggest problem of Taiwanese academic cir cles would be lack of succeeding young researchers. However, the increase of ocea n-related research papers during the Japanese rule in step with increasing trend of researchers on Taiwan's history may be considered to some degrees as the increas e of researchers reversely. So, the research may be rather deemed as having been carried out from a wider perspective of maritime culture in linkage with marine sci ence, fishery, ports and shipping.
This article introduces research status on China's maritime history during the Ming/Qing Dynasty and modern times by Taiwanese academic circles, focused on majo r books and research papers published in "Collection of Papers on the History of China's Maritime Development''. Chapter 2 of this article introduces 'Collection of P apers on the History of China's Maritime Development'' of Academy of Sciences, th at signalled the starting of research on China's maritime history, while Chapter 3 a nd 4 summarize research outcomes of China's maritime history during the Ming/Qi ng Dynasty and modern times based on ocean-related keywords. Conclusions will mention two characteristics of Taiwanese academic circle's research on maritime his tory.