(Source: Routledge)
Routledge has
published a new book comparing the Chinese Qing and Japanese colonial administration
of Taiwan.
ABOUT THE BOOK
The dispossession of indigenous peoples by
conquest regimes remains a pressing issue. This book, unlike most other books
on the subject, contrasts two different colonial administrations – first the
Chinese Qing Empire, then, from 1895, the Japanese. It shows how , under the
Chinese legal system, the Qing employed the Chinese legal system to managed the
relationship between the increasing numbers of Han Chinese settlers and the
indigenous peoples, and how, although the Qing regime took no and refrained
from taking actions to transform aboriginal land tenure, and how nevertheless
Chinese settlers were able to manipulate aboriginal land tenure to their
advantage. It goes on to examine the very different approach of the Japanese
colonial administration, which following the Meiji Restoration of 1868 had
begun to adopt a Western legal framework, demonstrating how this was
intentionally much more intrusive, and how the Japanese modernized legal
framework significantly disrupted aboriginal land tenure. Based on extensive
original research, the book provides important insights into colonisation, different
legal traditions and the impact of colonial settlement on indigenous peoples.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Dr Ruiping Ye is a lecturer in law at the
Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.
TABLE OF
CONTENTS
Introduction.
1. Land Settlement: Progression and Pattern.
2. Settlement Polices: Reluctant Expansion.
3. Aboriginal Land: Recognition and
Protection.
4. Chinese Practice: Transforming Aboriginal
Land Tenure.
5. Aborigines’ Efforts: A Losing Battle.
6. Japanese Colonisation: New Tenure under
the Modern Law.
Conclusion: Land Tenure, Colonisation, and
Legal Tradition
More information
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