台湾茶業における台湾人資本の発展 : 一九一〇年代を中心に
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This paper aims to analyse the prosperity of Taiwanese tea traders from the Qing dynasty to the early Japanese colonial period. Tea was one of the most important exports from Taiwan. Oolong tea from Taiwan was a famous soft drink in America. But in the late 19th century, British and mainland Chinese traders controlled the tea trade system and excluded the Taiwanese. This system continued unchanged after the Japanese occupation. British traders continued to control trade in Taiwan tea from China, mainland traders kept on managing their tea factories in Taipei. In 1904, the Bank of Taiwan decided to change Taiwan's currrency system, and set up foreign exchange networks. The Japanese colonial government supported shipping lanes around Taiwan. These policies had a greater impact on the trade. British and mainland Chinese traders moved their bases from China to Taiwan. Some Taiwanese set up their own tea factories in rural Taiwan in the early 1900s. Their factories increased the production of better leaves at low cost. In the early 1910s, Taiwanese tea traders extended their tea markets to South-East Asia. They sold not Oolong but Pauchong tea. Pauchong tea freed Taiwanese traders from the control of British Oolong tea traders. The Niitaka Bank was organized by Taiwanese to support the tea trade in 1916. This bank got excellent results. In the 1920s, Taiwanese tea traders exceeded British traders in the amount of trade.
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- 1996-03-25