1st Edition
Japanese Colonialism In Taiwan Land Tenure, Development, And Dependency, 1895-1945
By Chih-ming Ka
Copyright 1995
252 Pages
by
Routledge
256 Pages
by
Routledge
256 Pages
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Routledge
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Exploring the dynamics of development and dependency, this book traces the experience of Taiwan under Japanese colonial rule. Chih-ming Ka shows how, unlike in other sugar-producing colonies, Taiwan was able to sustain its indigenous family farms and small-scale rice millers, who not only survived but thrived in competition with Japanese sugar capital. Focusing on Taiwan's success, the author... Read more
Foreword -- Introduction -- Land Tenure, Class Relations, and the State in Precolonial Taiwan (1683–1895) -- The Colonial State, Foreign Capital, and the Articulation of Indigenous Agriculture -- Family Farms and the Formation of Surplus Extraction Mechanisms by Sugar Capital -- The Contradictory Relationship Between Rice and Sugar -- Conclusion -- Appendix: Prices, Income, and Land Productivity in Rice, Cane and Sugar Production, 1910–1938 -- Conversion of Weights and Measures
Biography
Chih-ming Ka
