| Summary: | 博士 === 國立臺灣大學 === 地理環境資源學研究所 === 96 === Abstract
The sugar is close to everybody''s daily life; it involves agriculture, industry and commerce section as the product. The sugar industry once influenced more than hundreds of thousands of peasants and landscape in Taiwan for hundred years.
In this article the sugar industry is considered as an intermediary of people and land on the smaller scale of region (Chi-Wei). The author aims to explore local characters, the time-space process of sugar industry developing, interaction between people and land, the cultural turn after sugar industry declining with a structuration approach and thick description and narrative method. The results of study appear:
National economic policy influences critically local sugar industry for a long time. Official interfering in Ch’ing era, people from China copied the life style in the native land, developed the sugar culture on Chi-Wei and replaced aboriginals by better agricultural knowledge.
Japanese Occupation, the governor dominated local sugar industry by political power, and established Chi-Wei in the leading position to development of sugar refining industry in region. The systems of police put down ethnicity''s conflict, promoted them into peasants and staff in sugar refining industry too. Through much better farming and sugar refining technique peasant involved in the rhythm of sugar refining industry, the sugar refining industry strengthened the interaction between peasant and land.
The Nationalist Party and government followed the old system of Japanese Occupation to promote the sugar refining industry. However, after accumulating enough foreign currency, the industrialized policy damaged the sugar industry.
The local sugar industry given up entirely due to labor cost raising, the international sugar industry declining, the market unstable changing, sugar import opening (1991), sugarcane cultivation stopping (1995), business of refining sugar stopping (2002), and Taiwan joining WTO. Recently, the sugar refining industry convert its cultural value because it constantly influence on people and land more than hundreds years. Several suggestions will be made for the local culture transition in this research:
1. Connect the local and regional (Chishan & Meinung) characteristics for taking more power and conviction.
2. Begin disscusion for common understanding of sugar industry and local characteristics identification, and win over the management of the sugar culture. The cultural transition of local sugar refining industry relies on local people and place; therefore, the discourse or relevant meaning of sugar refining industry will be more consequential.
3. Benefit from the peasants and staff of sugar refining industry who contributed to sugar industry in the past. They are all the key media and pushing hands of sugar culture.
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