In the Global Vanguard (eBook)

Agrarian Development and the Making of Modern Taiwan

James Lin (Autor)

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2025
290 Seiten
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-39868-9 (ISBN)

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In just half a century, Taiwan transformed from an agricultural colony into an economic power, spurred by efforts of the authoritarian Republic of China government in land reform, farmers associations, and improved crop varieties. Yet overlooked is how Taiwan brought these practices to the developing world. In the Global Vanguard elucidates the history and impact of the “Taiwan model” of agrarian development by incorporating how Taiwanese experts took the country’s agrarian success and exported it throughout rural communities across Africa and Southeast Asia. Driven by the global Cold War and challenges to the Republic of China’s legitimacy, Taiwanese agricultural technicians and scientists shared their practices, which they claimed were better suited for poor, tropical societies in the developing world. These development missions, James Lin argues, were projected in Taiwan as proof of the ruling government’s modernity and technical prowess and were crucial to how the state sought to hold onto its contested position in the international system and its rule by martial law at home.
 

Inhalt

Contents
 
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
 
Introduction
1. Famine Relief to Prevention: Science, Missionaries, and the Origins of Development, 1920–1948
2. Executing Contracts, Not Landlords: Capitalism through Land Reform, 1949–1968
3. The Taiwan Model: Agricultural Science, Farmers’ Associations, and Capitalism in Taiwan, 1949–1970
4. Martyrs of Development: Taiwanese Agrarian Development and the Republic of Vietnam, 1959–1975
5. “Straw Hat Diplomats”: Taiwanese Agrarian Development and Africa, 1961–1971
6. Capitalism with Socialist Characteristics: The Land Reform Training Institute, 1968–1979
7. Green Devolution: Taiwanese Vegetable Science, Nutrition, and the Developing World, 1969–1989
Conclusion
 
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.4.2025
• Reihe/Serie: Asia Pacific Modern
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• ISBN-10: 0-520-39868-8 / 0520398688
• ISBN-13: 978-0-520-39868-9 / 9780520398689