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Colonial Development and Population in Taiwan
By (Author) George Watson Barclay
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
28th June 2016
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Population and demography
Development studies
951.249
Hardback
294
Width 152mm, Height 235mm
567g
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 com