Contested Citizenship in East Asia

Kyung-Sup Chang is Professor of Sociology and Director of the Institute for Social Development and Policy Research at Seoul National University. His research interests include: developmental politics and social policy, comparative modernities (compressed modernity), post-socialist transitions in Asia. His work on these issues has appeared in journals including Economy and Society, World Development, Journal of Development Studies, International Sociology. He is also author of South Korea under Compressed Modernity: Familial Political Economy in Transition (Routledge, 2010). Bryan Turner is the Presidential Professor of Sociology and the Director of the Committee on Religion at the City University of New York.  He has published extensively in this area, and books include Muslims in Singapore (Routledge, 2009), and The Body in Asia (Berghahn, 2010). He has also edited The Routledge International Handbook of Globalization Studies (Routledge, 2010), The Routledge Handbook of Body Studies (Routledge, 2012), and is the founding editor of Citizenship Studies.

"Specifically by introducing critical lenses of identity and policy-making processes, this anthology highlights the ways legitimate memberships are gendered, nationalized and classed." —Hsin-I Cheng, Santa Clara University, Communication Research Trends

• Introduction: East Asia and Citizenship Part I: East Asia and Citizenship in Perspective 1. National and Social Citizenship: Some Structural and Cultural Problems with Modern Citizenship 2. Colonialism, Revolution, Development: A Historical Perspective on Citizenship in Political Struggles in Eastern Asia 3. Different Beds, One Dream? State–Society Relationships and Citizenship Regimes in East Asia Part II: China, Taiwan, Hong Kong 4. Community Citizens or Egoistic Men: Property Rights Activism in China’s New Urban Neighbourhoods 5. Corporate Citizenship in Contemporary China: Social Responsibility for Saving Jobs 6. Transnational or Compatriotic Bourgeoisie? Taiwanese Entrepreneurs and their Contested Citizenship Across the Taiwan Strait n 7. The Making of Citizenship in a Divided Nation: Neoliberal Citizenship in Hong Kong and National Citizenship in China Part III: Japan and Koreas 8. Social Citizenship in Action: Gender and Political Economy of Social-Care Policy Reforms in Japan 9. The Growth and Erosion of Japanese Identity in Ryukyu: a Citizenship Perspective 10. Developmental Citizenship in Perspective: The South Korean Case and Beyond 11. The Emergence of the ‘Multicultural Family’ and Genderized Citizenship in South Korea 12. Circumstantial Citizens: North Korean ‘Migrants’ in South Korea Part IV: Conclusion 13. Whither East Asian Citizenship? Index.