The early history of recording in Taiwan was embedded in the just-described currents of cultural globalization. It also overlapped with the period of Japanese colonial rule. Given the intermixture of diverse cultures, the result was a flourishing of creativity and productivity, with the whole process of development from first receiving records from abroad to the ability to mass-produce 78s domestically taking less than 30 years.
台灣唱片史，既嵌合在上述文化全球化的趨勢中，也與日本殖民統治時期疊合，在多元文化澆灌下，得以孕育出豐碩的音樂果實，從接受外來唱片到有能力大量產出唱片，前後不過 30 年。