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    Agrarian development family farms and sugar capital in colonial Taiwan 1895-1945
    (2022-02-23) Ka, Chih-ming
    This article analyses the conservation and restructuring of the Taiwanese family farms in the course of capitalist and colonial incorporation of Japanese private capital at the outset of colonial rule a congruence of interest between indigenous peasant producers and the colonial state resulted in policies that fostered the survival of family farms.These family farms constituted a formidable obstacle to the expansion of a labour-hiring capitalist agriculture.Under such conditions Japanese capital pursued vertial concentration resting on a highly productive family farming agriculture.