一九三〇年代の中国の棉花生産 : 棉花生産者についての二つの理解をめぐって
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The purpose of this paper is to review two ideas of Chinese cotton grower in the Japanese study on Chinese agronomy; one is "capitalist agricultural entrepreneur", the other is "poor peasant" or "small farmer": According to the conclusion two ideas are not incompatible, when we understand the historical background of China's cotton production. The first half of the paper looks at the conditions of China's cotton production in both pre-war and wartime periods. The second half looks at the behavior of Chinese cotton grower in the wartime period. In the 1930s China's cotton production increased twice in spite of the silver crisis. The main reason was ascribed to America's cotton price supporting policy which made it possible to maintain the highlevel price of cotton in the world marked. Under such circumstances Chinese farmer prefered cotton production to food production. So China's cotton production developed and a new type of cotton grower. "capitalist agricultural entrep reneur", came out. But in the cotton production districts food had to be supplied from the outside. After the outbreak of Sino-Japanese war the conditions of cotton production changed drastically. Owing to decrease of food supply from abroad, Chinese farmer, which was under the over-population pressure, devoted himself to food production for self-support and the cotton production decreased remarkably. The cultivated area per farmer was standerdized to the scale which was suitable for self-support. So Chinese cotton grower was considered as "poor peasant" or "small farmer" and the possibility of capitalistic development of Chinese agriculture was denied.
- 社会経済史学会の論文
- 1987-04-25