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Cane Farmers
Cane Procurement
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Colonial Administration
colonial economic policy
Colonial Taiwan
companies
dependency theory analysis
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farmers
Gunder Frank
Indigenous Land Tenure System
Japanese colonial agriculture Taiwan
Japanese Sugar
Land Reclamation
land reform studies
Land Tenure System
Patent Holders
Peasant Living Standards
perpetual
Perpetual Tenants
Price Setting Mechanism
Raw Cane
rice
Rice Exports
Rice Price
Rice Production
Rice Sector
rural class structure
sector
Sidney W. Mintz
Sliding Scale Price
sugar
Sugar Capitalists
Sugar Companies
Taiwanese Landlords
Taiwanese Rice
Taiwanese Sugar
tenant
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Total Arable Land
Product details
- ISBN 9780813336374
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 06 Oct 1998
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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 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.
Chih-ming Ka is a research fellow at the Institute of Sociology, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan.
