Japanese Colonialism in Taiwan: Land Tenure, Development, and Dependency, 1895-1945

ISBN-13: 9780367316433 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 255 str.

Chih-ming Ka

Opis

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 capi

Spis treści

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

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Chih-ming Ka