Colonial Administration and Land Reform in East Asia (Hardcover)

Part I 1. Landlords, Squatters, and Tenants: Fundamental Concepts of Land Administration in Early Colonial Hong Kong, Sui-wai Cheung 2. The Meiji Land Reform and the Formation of Modern Land Rights in Japan, Kentaro Matsubara Part II 3. Institutionalizing Public-service Land Holding in Early Japanese Colonial Taiwan: The Transformation of School Land, Pei-hsien Hsu 4. Lineage Properties in Civil Law: Notes on Public Property for Sacrifice in Taiwan, Wen-liang Tseng 5. Temple property management in colonial Taiwan: the case of the Yimin Temple of Xinzhu county, Hsin-yi Lin Part III 6. The Traditional Law of the New Territories, before and after 1899, Patrick Hase 7. Institutions of Credit and the Land Market in the New Territories of Hong Kong: Local Social Structuring and Colonization, Kentaro Matsubara Part IV 8. Trigonometrical Survey and the Land Maps in China, 1368-1950, Sui-wai Cheung 9. Launching the Land Revolution: Taiwan Land Survey in the Early Twentieth Century, Mi-cha Wu 10. The Two Land Investigations in Modern Taiwan: What Made the Japanese Survey different from the Qing Dynasty's, Wen-kai Lin 11. Land Reform and Colonial Land Legislation in Korea, 1894-1910, Young-ho Lee Part V 12. Too little, too late: China catching up on land registration technology in the 1930s, David Faure