Colonial Administration and Land Reform in East Asia

Sui-Wai Cheung is an Associate Professor in the Department of History at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

• Part I1. Landlords, Squatters, and Tenants: Fundamental Concepts of Land Administration in Early Colonial Hong Kong2. The Meiji Land Reform and the Formation of Modern Land Rights in JapanPart II3. Institutionalizing Public-service Land Holding in Early Japanese Colonial Taiwan: The Transformation of School Land4. Lineage Properties in Civil Law: Notes on Public Property for Sacrifice in Taiwan5. Temple property management in colonial Taiwan: the case of the Yimin Temple of Xinzhu countyPart III6. The Traditional Law of the New Territories, before and after 18997. Institutions of Credit and the Land Market in the New Territories of Hong Kong: Local Social Structuring and ColonizationPart IV8. Trigonometrical Survey and the Land Maps in China, 1368-19509. Launching the Land Revolution: Taiwan Land Survey in the Early Twentieth Century10. The Two Land Investigations in Modern Taiwan: What Made the Japanese Survey different from the Qing Dynasty's11. Land Reform and Colonial Land Legislation in Korea, 1894-1910ePart V12. Too little, too late: China catching up on land registration technology in the 1930s