Table Of ContentLOCATING
NEOLIBERALISM IN
EAST ASIA
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Studies in Urban and Social Change
Published Capital Culture: Gender at Work in the City
The Creative Capital of Cities: Interactive Knowledge Linda McDowell
of Creation and the Urbanization Economics of Cities After Socialism: Urban and Regional Change
Innovation and Confl ict in Post-Socialist Societies
Stefan Krätke Gregory Andrusz, Michael Harloe, and
Worlding Cities: Asian Experiments and the Art Ivan Szelenyi (eds.)
of Being Global The People’s Home? Social Rented Housing in Europe
Ananya Roy and Aihwa Ong (eds.) and America
Place, Exclusion and Mortgage Markets Michael Harloe
Manuel B. Aalbers Post-Fordism
Working Bodies: Interactive Service Employment Ash Amin (ed.)
and Workplace Identities The Resources of Poverty: Women and Survival
Linda McDowell in a Mexican City*
Networked Disease: Emerging Infections Mercedes Gonzal de la Rocha
in the Global City Free Markets and Food Riots
S. Harris Ali and Roger Keil (eds.) John Walton and David Seddon
Eurostars and Eurocities: Free Movement and Mobility Fragmented Societies*
in an Integrating Europe
Enzo Mingione
Adrian Favell
Urban Poverty and the Underclass: A Reader*
Urban China in Transition
Enzo Mingione
John R. Logan (ed.)
Getting Into Local Power: The Politics of Ethnic
Minorities in British and French Cities Forthcoming
Romain Garbaye Subprime Cities: The Political Economy of Mortgage
Cities of Europe Markets
Yuri Kazepov (ed.) Manuel B. Aalbers (ed.)
Cities, War, and Terrorism Globalising European Urban Bourgeoisies? Rooted
Stephen Graham (ed.) Middle Classes and Partial Exit in Paris, Lyon,
Cities and Visitors: Regulating Tourists, Markets, Madrid and Milan
and City Space Alberta Andreotti, Patrick Le Galès,
Lily M. Hoffman, Susan S. Fainstein, and and Francisco Javier Moreno-Fuentes
Dennis R. Judd (eds.) Paradoxes of Segregation: Urban Migration
Understanding the City: Contemporary and Future in Europe
Perspectives Sonia Arbaci
John Eade and Christopher Mele (eds.) From Shack to House to Fortress
The New Chinese City: Globalization Mariana Cavalcanti
and Market Reform Iron Curtains: Gates, Suburbs and Privatization
John R. Logan (ed.) of Space in the Post-Socialist City
Cinema and the City: Film and Urban Societies Sonia Hirt
in a Global Context Urban Social Movements and the State
Mark Shiel and Tony Fitzmaurice (eds.) Margit Mayer
The Social Control of Cities? A Comparative Fighting Gentrifi cation
Perspective Tom Slater
Sophie Body-Gendrot Confronting Suburbanization: Urban Decentralization
Globalizing Cities: A New Spatial Order? in Post-Socialist Central and Eastern Europe
Peter Marcuse and Ronald van Kempen (eds.) Kiril Stanilov and Ludek Sykora (eds.)
Contemporary Urban Japan: A Sociology Social Capital Formation in Immigrant
of Consumption Neighborhoods
John Clammer Min Zhou
* Out of print
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LOCATING
NEOLIBERALISM
IN EAST ASIA
NEOLIBERALIZING SPACES IN
DEVELOPMENTAL STATES
Edited by
Bae-Gyoon Park,
Richard Child Hill,
and Asato Saito
A John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., Publication
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Contents
List of Contributors vii
Series Editors’ Preface x
1 Introduction: Locating Neoliberalism in East Asia 1
Richard Child Hill, Bae-Gyoon Park, and Asato Saito
2 Industry Clusters and Transnational Networks: Japan’s
New Directions in Regional Policy 27
Kuniko Fujita and Richard Child Hill
3 State-Space Relations in Transition: Urban and Regional
Policy in Japan 59
Asato Saito
4 Developmental Neoliberalism and Hybridity of the Urban
Policy of South Korea 86
Byung-Doo Choi
5 Spatially Selective Liberalization in South Korea and Malaysia:
Neoliberalization in Asian Developmental States 114
Bae-Gyoon Park and Josh Lepawsky
6 Clusters as a Policy Panacea? Critical Reflections on the Cluster
Policies of South Korea 148
Yong-Sook Lee
7 Moving toward Neoliberalization? The Restructuring
of the Developmental State and Spatial Planning in Taiwan 167
Chia-Huang Wang
8 Neoliberalism, the Developmental State, and Housing Policy
in Taiwan 196
Yi-Ling Chen and William Derhsing Li
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9 Reforming Health: Contrasting Trajectories of Neoliberal
Restructuring in the City-States 225
Stephen W.K. Chiu, K.C. Ho, and Tai-lok Lui
10 “Detroit of the East”: A Multiscalar Case Study of Regional
Development Policy in Thailand 257
Richard Child Hill and Kuniko Fujita
11 Concluding Remarks 294
Bae-Gyoon Park and Asato Saito
Index 303
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List of Contributors
Yi-Ling Chen is assistant professor of international studies and geography
at the University of Wyoming. She wrote book chapters in Globalizing Taipei
(2005) and Women and Housing: An International Analysis (2011). She has also
written several articles on housing, gender, urban movements, and regional
development in Taiwan.
Stephen W.K. Chiu was awarded his doctorate from Princeton University
and is currently professor, Sociology Department, The Chinese University
of Hong Kong, and associate director, Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies, The
Chinese University of Hong Kong. His research interests include development
studies, industrial relations, social movements, and the c omparative study of
the East Asian newly industrialized economies.
Byung-Doo Choi is professor of geography at Daegu University in South
Korea. He is the author of several books, including Critical Ecology and
Environmental Justice (in Korean), and is translator of David Harvey’s books,
The Limits to Capital and A Brief History of Neoliberalism, into Korean. His
most recent research is on urbanization and urban policy in the process of
neoliberalization.
Kuniko Fujita is a retired professor of sociology who has taught at
Michigan State University, Hiroshima University in Japan, and the National
University of Singapore. Her recent publications include “Japanese State
Regime Shift and Tokyo’s Urban Policy” (2011), and Residential Segregation
around the World: Why Context Matters (forthcoming).
Richard Child Hill is an emeritus professor of sociology at Michigan
State University. He has taught and published widely in the fields of urban
and industrial sociology, international political economy, and East Asian
development. His East Asia-related writings include Japanese Cities in the
World Economy; Nested Cities: The State and Urban Development in East Asia; and
Innovative Tokyo, all with Kuniko Fujita.
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viii List of Contributors
K.C. Ho is coauthor of City-States in the Global Economy: Industrial Restructuring
in Hong Kong and Singapore (with Lui Tai Lok and Stephen Chiu), and is
coeditor of Globalization, the City and Civil Society in Pacific Asia Cities (with
Michael Douglass and Ooi Giok Ling); Service Industries, Cities and Development
Trajectories in the Asia-Pacific (with Peter Daniels and Tom Hutton); and
New Economic Spaces in Asian Cities (with Peter Daniels and Tom Hutton). He
teaches sociology at the National University of Singapore and researches on
the global-local tensions at different scales and for different actors.
William D.H. Li is associate professor at the National Dong Hwa
University. He is the author of Housing in Taiwan: Agency and Structure? (1998),
and currently he is undertaking research on housing, family, and social
policy.
Yong-Sook Lee is associate professor of public administration at the Korea
University. She has published numerous journal articles in Regional Studies,
Urban Studies, Economic Geography, Environment and Planning A & C, and Growth
and Change. Lee’s coedited books include Second Tier Cities: Rapid Growth beyond
the Metropolis (with Ann Markusen and Sean DiGiovanna) and Globalisation
and the Politics of Forgetting (with Brenda S.A. Yeoh).
Josh Lepawsky is assistant professor of geography at Memorial University
of Newfoundland, Canada. He publishes on topics relating to technology,
society, and space. His most recent research is on the international trade
and traffic of rubbish electronics.
Tai-lok Lui is professor of sociology at the University of Hong Kong. His
recent publications include Hong Kong, China: Learning to Belong to a Nation, and
Hong Kong: Becoming a Chinese Global City. He writes on Hong Kong society,
economic restructuring, and the East Asian middle class.
Bae-Gyoon Park is an associate professor of geography in the College of
Education at Seoul National University in Korea. His recent research has
focused on politics of local economic development and comparative studies
on state spaces in the East Asian context. He has recently published papers
in International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Political Geography, Economic
Geography, and Critical Asian Studies.
Asato Saito is an independent scholar working in Tokyo. He was awarded
a PhD from London School of Economics (LSE), and formerly taught at
the University of Singapore. His research has focused on the impact of
globalization and state restructuring upon urban and regional development
policy of Japan. He has published in Urban Studies and Political Geography, and
he is the coauthor of Struggling Giants: Governance and Globalization in the London,
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List of Contributors ix
New York, Paris, and Tokyo City Regions (forthcoming) with Paul Kantor, Hank
Savitch, Andy Thornley, and Christian Lefevre.
Chia-Huang Wang is professor in the Department of Social and Policy
Sciences at Yuan-Ze University, Taiwan. His research fields are urban
sociology, industrial political economy, sociology of information and
communication technology, and critical culture studies.
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Series Editors’ Preface
The Wiley-Blackwell Studies in Urban and Social Change series is published in
association with the International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. It aims
to advance theoretical debates and empirical analyses stimulated by changes
in the fortunes of cities and regions across the world. Among topics taken
up in past volumes and welcomed for future submissions are:
● Connections between economic restructuring and urban change
● Urban divisions, difference, and diversity
● Convergence and divergence among regions of east and west, north,
and south
● Urban and environmental movements
● International migration and capital flows
● Trends in urban political economy
● Patterns of urban-based consumption
The series is explicitly interdisciplinary; the editors judge books by their
contribution to intellectual solutions rather than according to disciplinary
origin. Proposals may be submitted to members of the series Editorial
Committee, and further information about the series can be found at
www.suscbookseries.com.
Jenny Robinson
Neil Brenner
Matthew Gandy
Patrick Le Galès
Chris Pickvance
Ananya Roy
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