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1. South Korea in Transition

   Politics and Culture of Citizenship

   Edited by Kyung-Sup Chang

   South Korea has continued to impress the world in the way it has harnessed social modernization, economic development, political democratization and, most recently, multi-faceted globalization. Relying on both established and inventive citizenship perspectives, the authors in this volume...

   To Be Published July 18th 2013 by Routledge
2. Contested Citizenship in East Asia

   Developmental Politics, National Unity, and Globalization

   Edited by Kyung-Sup Chang, Bryan Turner

   Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology

   Theories of citizenship from the West – pre-eminently those by T.H. Marshall – provide only a limited insight into East Asian political history. The Marshallian trajectory – juridical, political and social rights – was not repeated in Asia and the late nineteenth-century debate about...

   Published December 12th 2011 by Routledge
3. South Korea under Compressed Modernity

   Familial Political Economy in Transition

   By Kyung-Sup Chang

   Series: Routledge Advances in Korean Studies

   The condensed social change and complex social order governing South Koreans’ life cannot be satisfactorily delineated by relying on West-derived social theories or culturalist arguments. Nor can various globally eye-catching traits of this society in industrial work, education, popular culture,...

   Published September 6th 2011 by Routledge