Japanese Colonialism in Taiwan: Land Tenure, Development, and Dependency, 1895-1945
Japanese Colonialism in Taiwan: Land Tenure, Development, and Dependency, 1895-1945 (Transitions: Asia & Asian America) Chih-Ming Ka, Sidney W. Mintz,
Publisher: Westview Press
ISBN: 0813336376
DDC: 950
Edition: Paperback; 1995-12
Summary:
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 reassesses theories of capitalist transformation
of colonial agriculture and reconceptualizes the relationship between
colonial and indigenous socioeconomic and political forces.
Considering the influence of sugar on the evolution of family farms
and the contradictory relationship between sugar and rice production,
he explores the interplay of class forces to explain the unique
experience of colonial Taiwan.
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