Colonial Administration and Land Reform in East Asia

List of contents

Part I

1. Landlords, Squatters, and Tenants: Fundamental Concepts of Land Administration in Early Colonial Hong Kong

2. The Meiji Land Reform and the Formation of Modern Land Rights in Japan

Part II

3. Institutionalizing Public-service Land Holding in Early Japanese Colonial Taiwan: The Transformation of School Land

4. Lineage Properties in Civil Law: Notes on Public Property for Sacrifice in Taiwan

5. Temple property management in colonial Taiwan: the case of the Yimin Temple of Xinzhu county

Part III

6. The Traditional Law of the New Territories, before and after 1899

7. Institutions of Credit and the Land Market in the New Territories of Hong Kong: Local Social Structuring and Colonization

Part IV

8. Trigonometrical Survey and the Land Maps in China, 1368-1950

9. Launching the Land Revolution: Taiwan Land Survey in the Early Twentieth Century

10. The Two Land Investigations in Modern Taiwan: What Made the Japanese Survey different from the Qing Dynasty's

11. Land Reform and Colonial Land Legislation in Korea, 1894-1910e

Part V

12. Too little, too late: China catching up on land registration technology in the 1930s

About the author

Sui-Wai Cheung is an Associate Professor in the Department of History at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Summary

This book argues that as colonialism brought the concept of individual, as opposed to collective, land ownership to indigenous society, along with Western surveying techniques, the changes that resulted altered the relationship of the state to its citizens, and, thereby, the structure of local societies. The book considers these issues in all of Ea

Product details

• Authors: Sui Wai Cheung, Sui-Wai Cheung
• Assisted by: Sui-Wai Cheung (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9780367886561
• ISBN: 978-0-367-88656-1
• No. of pages: 206
• Series: The Historical Anthropology of Chinese Society Series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies, Colonialism & imperialism, Colonialism and imperialism, Regional / International studies, Asian History, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General