| 'Lands Economics Monthly'(LEM)was the first special issue to discuss the land problems in the period of the Republic of China which founded and issued firstly in January 1933 in Nanjing.It was 'the mouthpiece of the research field and the actual movement the report' of land scholars which was funded and affiliated to the Institute of Chinese land administration.LEM paid much attention to foreign lands issues and lands economics study of Europe,the United States,Japan,Russia and other countries to obtain lessons and experience.It focused on the analysis of the practical problems of land administration in China,and discussed the contents of land system and land management in our country which involve lands and the local economy,lands and population issues,lands and farmers,rural areas,agriculture,etc.In this paper,the author tries to analyze systematically and comprehensively the establishment situation and contents of the journal,to unfold the characteristics and ideological context of lands economics in the period of the Republic of China.This study also examines the academic contribution,the historical influence and applicable value of LEM's through the combination of historical materials and economic methods.The first Chapter presents this study's basic realities,including research background,research meaning,research methods and innovation point.Having studied other relevant study,the author thinks that LEM has been an important material when scholars studying land problem of Republic of China.However,there is still no study focusing on LEM itself expertly now,which could show land problem and its relevant problems more clearly and comprehensively.Thus,this study becomes full of academic values and research meanings.In the second chapter,the author gives a general analysis on the publication of LME.LME was published the first issue in January 1933 and the last issue in May 1937.In four years,there was a monthly production without any interruption during the period,and the total publications were five volumes,fifty-four issues.The purpose of LME is "try hard to gather all the relevant literature,although containing not fully and comprehensively,or missing mass and small,just to collect the manuscripts and communicate the information,as the wizard to study and promotion to reform.That is to say,through the establishment and distribution of LME,it is expected to promote the development of lands economics and reflect the authoritative position in the field of land economics study during the period of the Republic of China.LME has its own strong team,most of the editorial team is engaged in professional research on the land economics,mainly composed of academic experts and scholars,government officials in China at that time.Thus LME could create abundant contents of research,mainly including the theory of land economics,land problems in foreign country,land system in China,land management in China and other issues of land economics etc.These achievements are important materials for us to engaging some relevant study undoubtedly.Later,some different contents are analyzed separately in the third,fourth,fifth,sixth,and seventh chapter,in order to unfold the ideas of land economics in LME.In the third chapter,the author takes LEM's about the land economics theory studies as the research object.The contents mainly includes the analysis of international and domestic land economics theory.It is expected to find out the spread and application of the theory of land economics and the development context of the land administration theory from the introduction and comments of those articles.About its historical contribution,only a few articles introduce the land economic theory in LME.It cannot fully reflect the thought context of land economics at the period of the Republic of China,but provide strong historical support for our current research on land economic theory.In the fourth chapter,the author takes LEM's about the land economics problem in foreign country studies as the research object is analyzed.The involved national regions or countries are:Japan,Europe,the United States,the Soviet Union and so on.The author analysis and evaluation,and sums up the advanced political thoughts of these regions or countries from the perspective of land system,land policy and land reform.Through analysis in this part,two enlightenments are obtained:the first is that the perfect land system,the reasonable land policy and positive land reform provides important support for the development of the national economy in developed countries;the second is that China's construction of land reform system reference to the land reform system of the western countries to a great extent.In the fifth chapter,the land system of our country introduced by LEM is investigated,from the perspective of land system,land ownership,land reform and other issues.In this chapter the author thinks that the maturity land system is an important choice to solve the land problem and LEM's "equalization of landownership" is right.However,it protected benefits of lords and promoted land reform hardly for politic reasons.It hasn't realized "land to the tiller".But success of Taiwan's land reform proved that its proposals were right.Here,we can see the importance and necessary of land problem by comparison of Kuomintang's result.In the sixth chapter,the problems of land management in our country introduced by LEM are investigated,including introduction and analysis of land use management,land policy,land laws and regulations and so on,to show the situation of the land management in the period of Republic of China objectively and comprehensively.There are two conclusions:the first is that a reasonable system of land management is an important measures to promote the economic and social development in the circumstance that land reform was hardly carried out.However,it should know that only focusing on land using is unrealistic when most former still lack lands;the second is that the introduction and analysis of land consolidation saving use,land arrangement,land tax,land law and other issues,have important reference value in practice and measures until today.In the seventh chapter,some other land issues are investigated,mainly including the introduction and analysis of land and finance,land and regional economy,land and population,land and agriculture,rural areas and farmers,etc.There are also two conclusions:the first is that the introduction and analysis about other issues of land in the LEM can well reflect the importance of the land problem in the Republic of China and it is an important issue to promote rural economy development;the second is that many of the practice and measures are worth learning and using for reference.In the epilogue,the author makes a general study of the LEM.The positive factors of LEM,namely academic contribution,historical influence and realistic enlightenment are analyzed.At the same time,the limitations of the LEM are investigated in order to achieve the objective evaluation. |
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