Abstract: The paper aims to explore Taiwan’s academic culture of sports history in terms of its past,present and future. It expects the counterparts on both sides to share resources with each other and to arouse the attention of Taiwan’s sports field to the academic research of sports history so as for more lovers and researchers to be engaged in this academic realm. All in all,about seventy years of development since the second World war has not witnessed desirable achievements duo to the lack of resources and the nature of the this subject regardless of some predecessors’ efforts. Except for its free-standing self-improvement style in the future,Taiwan's sports history research should take advantage of its influence and win the support of government and school authorities. It is also advisable to invite professionals to teach the concerning courses in order for the subject to move from a frontier one to a central one.

Key words: Taiwan sports historiography, sports culture, sports academic research