This book offers the very first collaborative analysis of various conditions and aspects of developmental citizenship in China and its practical and ideological implications for Chinese post-socialism.

Chang Kyung-Sup is Professor of Sociology at Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea. His work on Chinese development has been published in World Development, Journal of Development Studies, Economy and Society, Rationality and Society, etc. His books on Asian citizenship include: Contested Citizenship in East Asia: Developmental Politics, National Unity, and Globalization (coedited with Bryan S. Turner, 2012); Transformative Citizenship in South Korea: Politics of Transformative Contributory Rights (2021), and more.

Introduction: Why developmental citizenship, why China? An analytic introduction 1. Developmental pluralism and stratified developmental citizenship: an alternative perspective on Chinese post-socialism 2. The local state and nongmingong citizenship in Guangdong: local welfare as developmental contributory rights 3. Corporate social vs. developmental responsibility: corporate citizenship in the restructuring of China's pharmaceutical industry 4. Infrastructural developmental citizenship: Chinese lawyers and state-framed marketization 5. China's ethnic minority and neoliberal developmental citizenship: Yanbian Koreans in perspective 6. The re-making of developmental citizenship in post-handover Hong Kong 7. Developmental citizenship, symbolic landscapes, and transformation in China and South Korea