Colonial administration and land reform in East Asia /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: EBSCOhost
Other Authors: Cheung, Sui-Wai
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Taylor and Francis, 2017.
Series:The Historical Anthropology of Chinese Society Series
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover ; Half Title ; Title Page ; Copyright Page ; Table of Contents; List of illustrations; List of contributors; Acknowledgements; Preface; Introduction: Colonial administration: the missing link in East Asian land reform; The out-and-out individualist: British land reform in India; British colonialism in Hong Kong; The Meiji Restoration: modernization and Japanese colonialism; Change and tradition: colonial land administration in East Asia; Notes; PART I: One plot one owner; 1. Landlords, squatters, and tenants: Fundamental concepts of land administration in early colonial Hong Kong
  • Land usurpers: whose land was it?Virtual perpetuity; Land survey; Squatters: regularizing non-"red deed" holders; Conclusion; Notes; 2. The Meiji Land Reform and the formation of modern land rights in Japan; Introduction; The premodern land regime: its inherent tensions and dynamics of change; The Meiji Land Reform; Consequences of the Meiji Land Reform; Conclusion: the Meiji Land Reform, the agricultural population and the market; Notes; PART II: Academies, lineages, and temples
  • 3. Institutionalizing public-service land holding in early Japanese colonial Taiwan: The transformation of school landAdministrative transition, 1895-1896; Finance, local or central, 1896-1901; Old customs investigation and land survey, 1901-1905; Conclusion; Notes; 4. Lineage properties in civil law: Notes on public property for sacrifice in Taiwan; Public property in the surveys of old customs; Legislation to govern sacrificial public properties; Notes; 5. Temple property management in colonial Taiwan: The case of the Yimin temple of Xinzhu county
  • The operation of the Yimin sacrificial estate before colonizationColonial laws and their impact in the early years of Japanese rule; Conclusion; Notes; PART III: The Torrens System; 6. The traditional land law of the New Territories, before and after 1899; Introduction; The traditional land law and the coming of the British; Subsoil, topsoil; Land survey; From red deeds and white deeds to the Block Crown Lease; Block Crown Lease achievements; Conclusion; Notes; 7. Credit institutions and the land market in the New Territories of Hong Kong: Local social structuring and colonization
  • The problem of zhunzheDeeds of sale; Institutions of credit and the land market; Credit and long-term land transactions in the New Territories; Notes; PART IV: Mapping colonies by trigonometrical survey; 8. Trigonometrical survey and the land maps in China, 1368-1950; Map registers without maps; Land map advocate; Visual estimation; A self-reporting system; Surveying Taiwan by triangulation; Crown Land Roll in the New Territories; Conclusion: the Fuyi quanshu tradition in China; Notes; 9. Launching the land revolution: Taiwan land survey in the early twentieth century