Date: Janurary 29 2010, (Mon.), 16：00～18:00
Venue: Room 331, 3F, Inamori Foundation Meromial Hall, Kyoto University
Presentation:
Paul Kratoska（National University of Singpore）
Comment:
Anthony Reid (CSEAS, Kyoto Unversity)
Title：
Rice in Southeast Asia - From Empires to Nations (1920s-1950s)
The Pacific War is often seen as a watershed moment in Southeast Asia, marking the end of colonial rule and the inauguration of policies created by and for sovereign nation-states. For the Southeast Asian rice economy, this periodization is extremely misleading. The critical events shaping food policy took place in the 1920s and 1930s, when crop failures, depression and the threat of war led colonial administrations to abandon regional and imperial economic models. The presentation will discuss how the physical characteristics of rice and the way rice was grown and distributed shaped the regional rice economy, and how that economy changed during the period between the 1920s and 1950s.
Contact：Noboru Ishikawa （CSEAS, Kyoto University）