Sugar Island: The History of Taiwan Sugar Industry During the Early Years of Japanese Rule, 1895-1911

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Publication Date｜2019-03-00

Authors｜Shaw-Herng Huang

Press｜National Chiao Tung University Press

ISBN｜9789578614277

Synopsis

From the context in Capitalism to Contemporary Sugar Industry in Taiwan

Due to the Geographical Discovery of the 15th century, sugar has become a world commodity, profoundly affecting the contemporary history around the world. Taiwan has also entered the stage of world history because of sugar. Its importance has not lasted until the 1960s. Before the end of the Second World War, Taiwan was the foundation in modern sugar industry in Japan. 

This book discusses the establishment of Taiwan's modern sugar industry in the early days of the Japanese occupation, covering the commencement Adequate Regulation of Taiwan's sugar industry from the Dutch East India Company to the initial development in the 1860s. It then explains the Required Regulation of the sugar import trade deficit caused by the opening by Japan which was transformed into the Post Sino-Japanese War development of Taiwan's modern sugar industry.  

Although there were equipped with mature mechanical techniques in sugar industry in Taiwan in the early days of Japan-Ruling Era, it was still difficult to control the localsmall-scale farming economy that has taken root and grown in Taiwan for more than200 years. However, the Sugar Club has relied on the sugar policy of the Governor's Office of Taiwan, which has achieved considerable success in the acquisition of rawmaterials through those policies. However, these policies have also become the bottleneck for the development of sugar companies, making the Taiwanese sugar industry in the Japanese occupation period unable to operate independently in the country.

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| 作者簡介

黃紹恆
國立交通大學客家文化學院院長、人文社會學系教授。
新竹縣人，國立臺灣大學經濟學系畢業，東京大學經濟學碩士、博士。曾任國立政治大學經濟學系副教授及教授、國立暨南國際大學歷史研究所兼任教授、東京大學社會科學研究所客座教授。著有《臺灣經濟史中的臺灣總督府：施政權限、經濟學與史料》（遠流，2010），《臺灣社會經濟史》（與陳鴻圖、林蘭芳合著，國立空中大學，2012）；〈日治初期三井物產在臺商業買賣之展開〉（許雪姬主編，《臺灣歷史的多元傳承與鑲嵌》，中央研究院臺灣史研究所，2014），譯有石井寬治《日本經濟史[第2版]》（五南，2009）等書。

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