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Intro -- Contents -- Acronyms -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Foreword -- Preface -- Part I: Developmental Politics and Social Policy -- Chapter 1: Introduction: Developmental Social Governance in Transition -- Chapter 2: Developmental Liberalism: The Developmental State and Social Policy -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Debates and Research on Social Policy -- 3 Historical and Political Backgrounds of Developmental Liberalism -- 4 Main Sociopolitical Attributes of Developmental Liberalism -- 4.1 Depoliticization/Technocratization/Developmental Obfuscation of Social Policy -- 4.2 Developmental Cooptation of Social Policy Constituencies -- 4.3 State-Business Entrepreneurial Merge and Direct State Engagement in Labor Relations -- 4.4 Familial Reconstitution of Social Citizenship -- 4.5 Welfare Pluralism and Demobilization of Civil Society -- 5 Democratic Challenges to Developmental Liberalism -- 6 Conclusion -- Part II: Post-Developmental Restructuring and Social Displacement -- Chapter 3: Coping with the "IMF Crisis" in the Developmental Liberal Context -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Social Conditions of South Korean Development -- 3 Economic Bubble, Psychological Bubble -- 4 Growth First, Distribution Later, and Structural Adjustment Now? -- 5 Labor-Business-Government Compromise, Labor-Business Bigotry -- 6 The IMF Enigma: Imperialist Finance and Local Population -- 7 Recasting the State: Neoliberal Social Democracy as a South Korean Alternative? -- 8 Conclusion -- Appendix: "Nosajeongwiweonhoe (Labor-Business-Government Committee) Co-Declaration" of 20 January 1998 -- Chapter 4: Developmental Citizenry Stranded: Jobless Economic Recovery -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Employment as National Developmental Entitlement -- 3 Financial Crisis Structurally Resolved Through Proletarian Crisis: Neoliberal Developmental Statism as Long-Term Remedy.

List of tables -- List of figures -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on contributors -- Acronyms and abbreviations -- Introduction: neoliberalism and developmental politics in perspective / Chang Kyung-Sup, Linda Weiss, Ben Fine -- Developmental politics and neoliberalism : critical issues -- The myth of the neoliberal state / Linda Weiss -- Kicking away the ladder : neoliberalism and the "real" history of capitalism / Chang Ha-Joon -- Neo-liberalism in retrospect? : it's financialisation, stupid / Ben Fine -- Predicaments of neoliberalism in the post-developmental liberal context / Chang Kyung-Sup -- European welfare states : neoliberal retrenchment, developmental reinforcement, or plural evolutions / Peter Abrahamson -- Developmental politics and neoliberalism in developing political economies -- Neoliberalism, democracy and development policy in Brazil / Alfredo Saad-Filho -- From dirgisme to neoliberalism: aspects of the political economy of the transition in India / C. P. Chandrasekhar -- The transition from neoliberalism to state neoliberalism in China at the turn of the 21st century / Alvin Y. So and Yin-wah Chu -- Vietnam between developmental state and neoliberalism : the case of the industrial sector / Pietro Masina -- New developmentalism in the old wineskin of neoliberalism in Uganda / Julius Kiiza -- Developmental politics and neoliberalism in advanced political economies -- Neoliberal restructuring in South Korea before and after the crisis / Tat Yan Kong -- The irish social partnership model : from growth promotion to crisis management? / Kwon Hyeong-ki -- From developmentalism to neoliberalism and back again? : governing the market in Australia from the 1980s to the present / Elizabeth Thurbon -- Conclusion and prospect -- Developmental politics beyond the neoliberal era / Ben Fine and Chang Kyung-Sup

This paper reinterprets the societal nature of Chinese rural development by introducing the concept of ruralism. By ruralism, extending Edward Said's epistemology, I denote all those social, cultural, political, and economic ideas and actions about rural peoples and places that have been devised and implemented by urban-based elite groups to justify urban-centered programs of economic and social transformation and necessitate self-negating changes (and non-changes) in rural people's everyday life. Ruralism has much more to do with the interests of urban economic, political, and social groups than with the realities of rural people's life. However, it exerts a formidable self-fulfilling power by inducing and coercing rural people to comply with the specific ways of thinking, acting, and relating described or, more precisely, prescribed therein. Ironically, communist China, which had been built through an agrarian social revolution, presents a particularly pertinent case of ruralist (under)development. The suppression of nonagricultural activities and geographic mobility, the compulsory concentration in grain production, and the forced social, political, and economic autarky (or self-reliance in euphemism) all presupposed a stagnant, introverted, and austere mode of existence on the part of Chinese peasants. Therefore, many of the particular characteristics of peasant life in the collective era were ruralist inventions and reinventions which Chinese peasants were neither accustomed to nor pleased with. In many respects, post-Mao rural reform has been a process of undoing – and thereby unlearning – the ruralist policies and practices of the collective era. Such undoing, more unexpectedly than expectedly, came to release the enormous developmental potential of autonomous peasant families in agricultural, industrial, and tertiary economic activities. But the undoing of ruralism is in no sense complete, and even new elements of ruralism have been added during the reform process.