Japanese Colonialism In Taiwan: Land Tenure, Development, And Dependency In Taiwan, 1895-1945 0813389224, 9780813389226

Table of contents :
Contents
Tables and Illustrations
Photographs
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1 Land Tenure, Class Relations, and the State in Precolonial Taiwan (1683-1895)
2 The Colonial State, Foreign Capital, and the Articulation of Indigenous Agriculture
3 Family Farms and the Formation of Surplus Extraction Mechanisms by Sugar Capital
4 The Contradictory Relationship Between Rice and Sugar
Conclusion
Appendix: Prices, Income, and Land Productivity in Rice, Cane and Sugar Production, 1910-1938
Bibliography
Conversion of Weights and Measures
Glossary
About the Book and Author
Index

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Japanese Colonialism in Taiwan

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Chapter 3 is adapted from "Agrarian Development, Family Farms and Sugar Capital in Colonial Taiwan, 1895-1945," in Journal o f Peasant Studies, vol. 18, no. 2 (1991). Reprinted by permission of Frank Cass 8c Co. Ltd. All photos courtesy of Library of the Intitute of Ethnology, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan. All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopy, recording, or any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher. Copyright