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Tropicalizing Taiwan The Environment Crops And Institutions Of The Japanese Colonial Food Regime 18951945 Huahsuan Chu

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Tropicalizing Taiwan The Environment Crops And Institutions Of The Japanese Colonial Food Regime 18951945 Huahsuan Chu
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Publisher: ProQuest Dissertations
File Extension: PDF
File size: 3.12 MB
Pages: 335
Author: Huahsuan Chu
Language: English
Year: 2020

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Throughoutits fifty-year colonization, Japan oscillated between inhibiting andencouraging rice production in Taiwan. Past studies approached this phenomenon byanalyzing the endogenous factors of this island orthe supply-demand dynamics betweenTaiwan and Japan. This dissertation instead applies a food-regime analysis to examine theimperial network of agricultural division of labor to reexplain Japanese colonization ofTaiwan’s agriculture. Theoretically, Japan not only was an anomalous case to the Marxistagricultural political economy, capsulized as the scholarship of the “Agrarian Questions,”but also presented a sharp contrast to the British Empire, the ideal type or prototype tomany sociological theoriesof capitalist development involving agricultural resources. Incontrast to the vast territory of tropical colonies that contributed innumerable raw materialsto fuel Britain’s industrialization, the small island of Taiwan is the only tropical area withinthe Japanese Empire. Therefore, this dissertation embeds Japan’s rice policies towardTaiwan in its deployment of imperial agricultural resources and inquires whether its policyinconsistency in Taiwan was related with how it sought to utilize tropical Taiwan. Througharchival research, this dissertation explores the Japanese mentality and policy rationalesabout utilizing Taiwan’s tropical environment and agriculture and combines thisexploration with the agro-economic data and analyses of the empire’s ricesupply chain.This dissertation proves that Taiwan was mobilized as an instrument of adjustment toproduce rice when the imperial rice supply was short and to produce tropical cash cropswhen the supply was abundant. However, restructuring the colonized socio-natureencountered complicated conflicts of interests, values, knowledge, agricultural practices, different paradigms of exchange and circulation, which all were constituted and shapedby local socio-natural conditions. Therefore, restructuring Taiwan’s agriculture and societyfor different crop resources was time consuming and resistance triggering, creatingunexpected structural spillover effects that hindered the next round of restructuring. Byemploying Taiwan as a unique lens on the environmental limitations of the Japanese empire,an East Asia-based temperate empire, this dissertation questions the preconditions ofdevelopment and illustrates how institutions help overcome obstacles of developmentcaused by resource scarcity, which is relationally defined.

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