Title: Land reform in Postwar Taiwan: Causes and Effects
Lecturer: QU Wanwen (Research Fellow at Academia Sinica)
Chairperson: LUO Gang (Professor, Department of Chinese Language and Literature, East China Normal University)
Date: 3 pm, September 25th, 2019 (Wednesday)
Venue: Room 5303, Building of School of Humanities, Minhang Campus, ECNU
Sponsor: Si-mian Institute for Advanced Studies in Humanities, ECNU
Abstract of the Lecture:
In Taiwan’s early postwar period, the Nationalist government successfully carried out rural land reform. How to evaluate this reform became a controversial issue since democratization began in the late 1980s. This paper examines the causes and effects of land reform and argues for a historical perspective to evaluate this important event.
