Taiwan Land Reform Museum

The Taiwan Land Reform Museum is a museum located in Taipei, Taiwan. It was established on March 11, 1967. The purpose of the museum is to commemorate Taiwan's land reform.

Land reform in Taiwan

In the 1950s, after the Nationalist government came to Taiwan, land reform and community development was carried out by the Sino-American Joint Commission on Rural Reconstruction. This course of action was made attractive, in part, by the fact that many of the large landowners were Japanese who had fled, and the other large landowners were compensated with Japanese commercial and industrial properties seized after Taiwan reverted from Japanese rule in 1945. The land program succeeded also because the Kuomintang were mostly from the mainland and had few ties to the remaining indigenous landowners.^[1]

Collection

Exhibitions include historical land reform documents including land reform campaign literature, charts, and photographs.

See also

• Land Reform
• Land Bank of Taiwan

References