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- Title
Governance and the Politics of Exchange in Militarized Jinmen, 1949-1992.
- Authors
Chang-hui Chi
- Abstract
When the Kuomintang (Chinese Nationalist Party, KMT), dominated by Chiang Kai-shek, lost the civil war to the Chinese Communist Party and retreated to Taiwan in 1949, the island of Jinmen was assigned the role of shielding Taiwan from Communist attacks. The commander of the Jinmen Defense Headquarters (JDH), Hu Lian, received locally produced sorghum liquor as a gift. He was surprised by its quality and the aroma of the liquor pleased him. In 1952 JDH established a sorghum distillery. The military authorities in the 1950s began trading rice for sorghum—required in large quantities to make this type of liquor—in order to encourage the farmers to shift production. Rice and sorghum functioned more like gifts than commodities between the military and Jinmen's farmers. The practice of gift exchange between the military and the dominated civilians helped naturalize the militarization of Jinmen's society.
- Subjects
KUOMINTANG (Political party); CIVIL war; COMMUNISTS; FARMERS; HU Lian
- Publication
Taiwan Journal of Anthropology, 2015, Vol 13, Issue 2, p1
- ISSN
1727-1878
- Publication type
Article