英文摘要 |
This paper examines land reform in Taiwan from a historical perspective. Since early Ching dynasty, Chinese peasants began to settle in Taiwan in large numbers and brought the tenancy system with them from the Mainland to cultivate the land. After 1895, the Japanese colonial government had succeeded to build up a modern sugar economy in Taiwan and modernize the agriculture sector. It carried out a land reform to introduce modern land property rights system. While on Mainland China, the Nationalist government had advocated peaceful land reform to counter the rising influence of the CCP, but failed to implement it before its defeat in 1949. In Taiwan, KMT remembered the lessons of its failure. It carried out land reform and controlled the rural area in Taiwan. As part of the modernization plan in Taiwan, the land-to-the-tiller program turned tenant peasants into small holders, established modern private land ownership institution, and transformed the organization of peasant society. |