刘铭传(1836——1895),字省三,安徽合肥人,清末著名淮军将领,曾积极参与镇压太平军和捻军起义。1884年中法战争期间,他受命督办台湾军务,领导军民抗法;次年十月台湾建省,又成为首任台湾巡抚。对于这样一位历史人物,“文革”以前并未引起国内研究者应有的重视,五十年代见于报刊的专题论文仅有赵捷民《刘铭传在台湾的抗法问题》一篇(载《新史学通讯》1955年第1期);六十年代更趋沉寂。自七十年代末期以来,随着学术空气日益活跃,已先后有陆方、苏征、韦庆远等同志的十多篇文章问世。并且,在近年出版的一些台湾地方史著作中,如陈碧笙《台湾地方史》(中国社会科学出版社1982年8月版)、林其泉 Liu Ming Chuan (1836--1895), the word province three Anhui Hefei, the famous Qinghua generals, has actively involved in suppressing the Taiping and Nian army uprising. During the Sino-French war in 1884, he was ordered to supervise Taiwan’s military affairs and lead the army and civilians in combating the law. In October the following year Taiwan was established and became the first governor of Taiwan. For such a historical figure, “Cultural Revolution” did not attract the attention of domestic researchers before. In the 1950s, the only theses that appeared in the press were Zhao Jiemin’s “Anti-France Problem of Liu Mingchuan in Taiwan” “1955, No. 1); the sixties more quiet. Since the late 1970s, with the increasingly active academic atmosphere, more than 10 articles of comrades such as Lu Fang, Su Zheng and Wei Qingyuan have been published successively. In addition, some Taiwanese local history works published in recent years, such as Chen Bisheng’s ”Local History in Taiwan" (China Social Sciences Press, August 1982), Lin Qichuan