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Author:

Tsai, Shih-shan Henry, author.

Title:

The peasant movement and land reform in Taiwan, 1924-1951 / Shih-Shan Henry Tsai.

Publisher:

MerwinAsia,

Copyright Date:

2015

Description:

xx, 250 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm

Subject:

Land reform--Taiwan--History.
Land tenure--Taiwan.
Peasant uprisings--Taiwan.
Taiwan--History--1895-1945.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-237) and index.

Contents:

Origins and background of Taiwan's peasant movement -- The time and space of Taiwan's countryside -- The rise of Taiwan's tenant union movement -- Taiwan's Tenant Union movement in full blossom -- The decline and dormancy of the Taiwan Tenant Union -- Taiwan becoming a confluence of Japanese, Americans, and Chinese -- Postwar American aid and land reform of Taiwan.

Summary:

Examines the development of the Tenant Union between 1924 and 1934, and it during the 1940s and 1950s, which saw the end of Japanese rule, arrival of nationalist Chinese, and US-backed land reform.

ISBN:

1937385809
9781937385804

OCLC:

(OCoLC)903596909

LCCN:

2015947027

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)