Mobilizing for Development : : The Modernization of Rural East Asia / / Kristen E. Looney.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Contemporary Collection eBook Package
• VerfasserIn: Looney, Kristen E.,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (234 p.) :; 2 b&w line drawings

Mobilizing for Development tackles the question of how countries achieve rural development and offers a new way of thinking about East Asia's political economy that challenges the developmental state paradigm. Through a comparison of Taiwan (1950s-1970s), South Korea (1950s-1970s), and China (1980s-2000s), Kristen E. Looney shows that different types of development outcomes-improvements in agricultural production, rural living standards, and the village environment-were realized to different degrees, at different times, and in different ways. She argues that rural modernization campaigns, defined as policies demanding high levels of mobilization to effect dramatic change, played a central role in the region and that divergent development outcomes can be attributed to the interplay between campaigns and institutions. The analysis departs from common portrayals of the developmental state as wholly technocratic and demonstrates that rural development was not just a byproduct of industrialization. Looney's research is based on several years of fieldwork in Asia and makes a unique contribution by systematically comparing China's development experience with other countries. Relevant to political science, economic history, rural sociology, and Asian Studies, the book enriches our understanding of state-led development and agrarian change.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Tables and Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Note on Transliteration -- Introduction: The State and Rural Development in East Asia -- 1. The Role of Rural Institutions and State Campaigns in Development -- 2. Rural Development in Taiwan, 1950s-1970s -- 3. Rural Development in South Korea, 1950s-1970s -- 4. Rural Development in China, 1980s-2000s -- Conclusion: The Rural Developmental State -- Appendix -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index