Locating Neoliberalism in East Asia : Neoliberalizing Spaces in Developmental States (Paperback)

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

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