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Colonial Administration and Land Reform in East Asia book cover

1st Edition

Colonial Administration and Land Reform in East Asia

Edited By Sui-Wai Cheung Copyright 2017
218 Pages
by Routledge

218 Pages
by Routledge

218 Pages
by Routledge
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This book argues that as colonialism brought the concept of individual, as opposed to collective, land ownership to indigenous society, along with Western surveying techniques, the changes that resulted altered the relationship of the state to its citizens, and, thereby, the structure of local societies. The book considers these issues in all of East Asia, including China, Japan and Korea,... Read more

Part I



1. Landlords, Squatters, and Tenants: Fundamental Concepts of Land Administration in Early Colonial Hong Kong



2. The Meiji Land Reform and the Formation of Modern Land Rights in Japan



Part II



3. Institutionalizing Public-service Land Holding in Early Japanese Colonial Taiwan: The Transformation of School Land



4. Lineage Properties in Civil Law: Notes on Public Property for Sacrifice in Taiwan



5. Temple property management in colonial Taiwan: the case of the Yimin Temple of Xinzhu county



Part III



6. The Traditional Law of the New Territories, before and after 1899



7. Institutions of Credit and the Land Market in the New Territories of Hong Kong: Local Social Structuring and Colonization



Part IV



8. Trigonometrical Survey and the Land Maps in China, 1368-1950



9. Launching the Land Revolution: Taiwan Land Survey in the Early Twentieth Century



10. The Two Land Investigations in Modern Taiwan: What Made the Japanese Survey different from the Qing Dynasty's



11. Land Reform and Colonial Land Legislation in Korea, 1894-1910e



Part V



12. Too little, too late: China catching up on land registration technology in the 1930s

Biography

Sui-Wai Cheung is an Associate Professor in the Department of History at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

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