Chang Kyung-sup is a Professor of Sociology at Seoul National University. His research interests include comparative modernity (compressed modernity); family-life course-political economy relationship (East Asia); development politics and social policy (Korea, China); comparative citizenship (developmental citizenship), etc. His recent books in these areas include South Korea under Compressed Modernity: Familial Political Economy in Transition (Routledge, 2010/2011), Contested Citizenship in East Asia: Developmental Politics, National Unity, and Globalization (edited with Bryan S. Turner, Routledge, 2012), and Developmental Politics in Transition: The Neoliberal Era and Beyond (edited with Ben Fine and Linda Weiss, Palgrave Macmillan, 2012). He is currently working on two book projects on Developmental Politics in South Korea: From Developmental Liberalism to Neoliberalism and Compressed Modernity: The Korean Configuration and Beyond, and co-editing Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Social Theory (with Bryan S. Turner, et al).