Now reading "How Asia Works" by Joe Studwell:https://www.amazon.com/How-Asia-Works-Joe-Studwell/dp/0802121322 …
is there a good summary of the program online? what I'm finding so far suggests the formerhttps://taiwantoday.tw/news.php?unit=10,23,45,10&post=15716 …
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Read the book!
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earliest I can get it is Saturday! in the meantime....
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nice--tho that KMT mention at the top...I imagine they were much more willing to talk land reform *after* relocating to an island where few if any of their members were landowners
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Yep. He talks about that too. We tried to push them to do land reform in China when they were still nominally in charge, and they half-assed it.
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Understandably so--it looks like one aspect of the reform in Taiwan is it didn't really fuck anyone over; everybody won SOMETHING
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It fucked over some landlords because the bonds they got as compensation got destroyed by inflation.
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ya but that was neither anticipated nor intended, correct? which is my point here
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er, the latter
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