Colonial Development and Population in Taiwan

George Watson Barclay

• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Year: 2015
• Topic: History
• Print ISBN:
  9780691623948
  9780691030104
• Subtopic: Asian History
• eBook ISBN:
  9781400877010
• Index: History

An unusual view of an agrarian region in the process of development by a colonial power. Taiwan (or Formosa), when it reverted to Chinese control in 1945, had been for fifty years the Japanese empire's most cherished foreign possession. Using the remarkable statistical data that the Japanese compiled to aid their administration—one of the most complete and creditable records for a population of this size that has ever been at the disposal of demographers—this book is able to present an authoritative picture of the social economic agricultural and demographic development of the island.

Originally published in 1966.

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Table of contents

• Cover
• Contents
• Preface
• Introduction
• I. The Growth of Population
• II. "Economic Development" in Taiwan
• III. Economic Activities and Social Change
• IV. The Disposition of Manpower
• V. Migration and the Growth of Cities
• VI. Public Health and the Risks of Death
• VII. The Setting for Family Life
• VIII. Patterns of Marriage and Divorce
• IX. The Fertility of the Taiwanese
• X. Conclusion
• Bibliography
• Index