Jinn‐yuh Hsu
Biographic Data
| ID | 3674007 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jinn‐yuh Hsu |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jinn‐yuh |
| FAMILY NAME | Hsu |
| SIGNATURE | HSU J Y |
| AFFILIATIONS | National Taiwan University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6465-6565 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 173 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
Reassembling transnational planning knowledge in the 1950s-Taiwan
The study revisits the flows of planning knowledge during the early Cold War in Taiwan. The case of Chunghsing New Village (CNV) reveals that planning practices can travel from some place to others for learning and imitation but variegated urban geographies result in diversified territorialities. In a state of wartime emergency, transnational knowledge travel and its local learning process are often practiced in a hasty, mixed, and fragmented man…
Accidental Border
Borders not only delimit state territory but also differentiate state spaces, delineating the periphery from the core. However, a remote borderland is not necessarily the periphery, rather, it can function as a core component in the making of the state. By examining the border islands of Kinmen and Matsu (or Kinma, as abbreviated here) in the Taiwan Strait, we illuminate how the state relocated itself through border measures, and how accidental b…
Process-ing with mechanism
This paper fleshes out the advantages of critical realism in social explanation. It does so first through criticizing the obsession with process-ing in the field of geography, which uses time to explain space, for obscuring inherited social relations and key mechanism in social research. Second, the paper argues that under such a circumstance, Yeung’s ((2019) Rethinking mechanism and process in the geographical analysis of uneven development. Dia…
A tale of two industrial zones
Much scholarship on East Asian development has sidelined the crucial role of geopolitics by insisting that wars such as the Vietnam War had limited effects on industrial development and economic growth patterns. We find such arguments unpersuasive, and also unduly reductionist. The Vietnam War, in particular, had unambiguously powerful effects on industrial development in South Korea; but even in cases where the direct effects of war were somewha…
Hsinchu Technopolis
The Hsinchu Science-based Industrial Park (HSIP) - a special zone established by the Taiwanese government to attract overseas talented engineers back to Taiwan - has been referred to as 'a Silicon Valley of the East'. As a dreamscape of Taiwan's modernity, the HSIP aimed to exhibit futuristic ways of organizing employment and living a modern lifestyle. However, the success of the HSIP has created and deepened social and urban contradictions with …
New Industrial Space
“New industrial space” describes the agglomeration of specialized firms flexibly coordinated to enjoy the reduction of transaction costs. In contrast to the existing industrial system of mass production, it is characterized by vertically disintegrated firms engaging in batch production, the interdependency between firms, and the emergence of informal, contract‐based or self‐employed workers. In the late 1970s and 1980s, this new form of productio…
Path Dependence
The concept of “path dependence” emphasizes that the set of decisions one can make is influenced by the decisions one has made in the past. In the late 1980s, economists introduced the concept of path dependence to investigate how economic structures are shaped by historical accidents and contingencies. With the influence of path dependence, geographers, such as Boschma, Martin, and Sunley, develop evolutionary economic geography to figure out th…
Vertical Integration
Vertical integration/disintegration are concepts that scholars use to describe the change of firm ownership structure along a given production chain. In the 1970s and 1980s in several parts of the world (e.g., central Italy and southern California) there appeared clusters of small firms which engaged in the production of highly specialized products. These clusters (or industrial districts) were in sharp contrast to the highly vertically integrate…
Economic Development Zones
Economic development zone (EDZ) is a spatial policy and experimental strategy for stimulating economic growth. Even though its roots are ancient, it is only in recent decades that EDZ has emerged as a powerful global form. Zoning technologies, as a compromise between liberal and protective regimes, can be seen as the state's intention to cope with the emerging opportunities and pressures of internationalization by redefining its territory, border…
State transformation and the evolution of economic nationalism in the East Asian developmental state
This paper empirically highlights the role of nationalism in the development of the semiconductor industry in Taiwan. First, it demonstrates how the pre‐1980s Taiwanese developmental state mobilised Chinese economic nationalism against Japanese colonialism and Chinese communism and adopted the strategies of graduated sovereignty, selectively subsidising certain areas and sectors, and promoting national (homogeneously imagined) territorialisation …
State Transformation, Policy Learning, and Exclusive Displacement in the Process of Urban Redevelopment in Taiwan
This paper explores the dynamics behind the changing regimes of urban renewal and its social impacts in Taiwan. Before the 1980s, the state was willing to solely shoulder the job of urban renewal with a wholly supportive financial budget and land appropriation law, while in the 1990s it became financially overburdened due to its renewal policy. Around the year 2000, the state turned towards promoting urban regeneration as a key business model. Th…
Performing the trade show
Divergent engagements
Professionals and entrepreneurs returning to developing countries from developed countries play key roles in the technological 'catch-up' of their home countries, but they are rarely well-conceptualized by the theories of globalization. This is especially the case in Asia. The American-trained Chinese engineers who returned to Taiwan were instrumental in creating Taiwan's excellent semiconductor industry during the 1980s and 1990s. In a similar v…
State Tansformation and Regional Development in Taiwan
This article deals with the transformation of the state and the change in industrial and regional development policy that took place in Taiwan in the context of a globalizing economy. Taiwan's authoritarian Kuomintang regime was able to concentrate resources on developing strategic industries in key regions, notably Hsinchu, and rendered rural industrialization possible by extending the global production network to central Taiwan. Dramatic change…
Economic integration and the cross‐Taiwan Strait reconciliation
In this paper, I aim to explain the puzzle of why economic integration leads to political separation in a cross‐Strait exchange. Being a political economist heavily influenced by Marxist tenets, I argue two things here. First, the base structure, or the economy, is an indispensable element of the politics of cross‐Strait integration. More importantly, I argue that the effect of economic integration is an issue of class‐based analysis and, accordi…
Revisiting the Silicon Island? The Geographically Varied ‘Strategic Coupling’ in the Development of High-technology Parks in Taiwan
Yang D. Y.-R., Hsu J.-Y. and Ching C.-H. Revisiting the silicon island? The geographically varied ‘strategic coupling’ in the development of high-technology parks in Taiwan, Regional Studies. High-technology parks have been instrumental for propelling regional development and acclaimed as the panacea for curing regional decline since industrial restructuring after the 1980s in Taiwan. This paper aims to explore the divergent dynamics of different…
The spatial encounter between neoliberalism and populism in Taiwan
In-Between Sessions at the AAG
The geography of learning and knowledge acquisition among Asian latecomers
This paper examines the geography of technological learning and knowledge acquisition among Taiwanese and Korean firms. Specifically it focuses on the knowledge sourcing experience of Asian manufacturing latecomers in the United States (US). The Asian latecomer model of learning is characterized by a triangular spatial division of knowledge sourcing and technological production that involves the transfer and circulation of knowledge across multip…
Global Taiwan
A site of transnationalism in the “Ungrounded Empire”
The Evolving Institutional Embeddedness of a Late‐industrial District in Taiwan
The high‐technology industrial system in Taiwan is noted by its decentralisation and geographical agglomeration. It demonstrates varieties of features of industrial district: spin‐offs, collaborations, networking, and most importantly, institutional presences. At the initial stage, Taiwan's Govern‐ment did lead in the technology transfer, rendered new firms formation and pushed the private sector hard to bring the industry into being. However, as…
Revisiting Economic Development in Post-war Taiwan
The post-war economic growth of Taiwan has been spectacular and became particularly dazzling in East Asia after 1997 economic turmoil. While neo-classicists interpret Taiwan Miracle as a model of free market economy, the Statists put the government policy to the core of the stage. However, neither the neoliberalists nor the statists take the phenomena of uneven development serious. By ignoring the process of geographical industrialization, both d…
The Limits of Guanxi Capitalism
In this research we explore the relationship between high-technology regional development and ethnic networks in the connection between Silicon Valley, California and Hsinchu, Taiwan. We elaborate the argument that regional industrial structure and embedded social networks, rather than the multinational firm, should be the focus in the study of transnational business. The complementary regional industrial structures allow economic and technologic…
The struggle over local space
The Limits of Guanxi Capitalism
In this research we explore the relationship between high-technology regional development and ethnic networks in the connection between Silicon Valley, California and Hsinchu, Taiwan. We elaborate the argument that regional industrial structure and embedded social networks, rather than the multinational firm, should be the focus in the study of transnational business. The complementary regional industrial structures allow economic and technologic…
State Transformation, Policy Learning, and Exclusive Displacement in the Process of Urban Redevelopment in Taiwan
This paper explores the dynamics behind the changing regimes of urban renewal and its social impacts in Taiwan. Before the 1980s, the state was willing to solely shoulder the job of urban renewal with a wholly supportive financial budget and land appropriation law, while in the 1990s it became financially overburdened due to its renewal policy. Around the year 2000, the state turned towards promoting urban regeneration as a key business model. Th…
Revisiting the Silicon Island? The Geographically Varied ‘Strategic Coupling’ in the Development of High-technology Parks in Taiwan
Yang D. Y.-R., Hsu J.-Y. and Ching C.-H. Revisiting the silicon island? The geographically varied ‘strategic coupling’ in the development of high-technology parks in Taiwan, Regional Studies. High-technology parks have been instrumental for propelling regional development and acclaimed as the panacea for curing regional decline since industrial restructuring after the 1980s in Taiwan. This paper aims to explore the divergent dynamics of different…
A site of transnationalism in the “Ungrounded Empire”
A tale of two industrial zones
Much scholarship on East Asian development has sidelined the crucial role of geopolitics by insisting that wars such as the Vietnam War had limited effects on industrial development and economic growth patterns. We find such arguments unpersuasive, and also unduly reductionist. The Vietnam War, in particular, had unambiguously powerful effects on industrial development in South Korea; but even in cases where the direct effects of war were somewha…
The geography of learning and knowledge acquisition among Asian latecomers
This paper examines the geography of technological learning and knowledge acquisition among Taiwanese and Korean firms. Specifically it focuses on the knowledge sourcing experience of Asian manufacturing latecomers in the United States (US). The Asian latecomer model of learning is characterized by a triangular spatial division of knowledge sourcing and technological production that involves the transfer and circulation of knowledge across multip…
State Tansformation and Regional Development in Taiwan
This article deals with the transformation of the state and the change in industrial and regional development policy that took place in Taiwan in the context of a globalizing economy. Taiwan's authoritarian Kuomintang regime was able to concentrate resources on developing strategic industries in key regions, notably Hsinchu, and rendered rural industrialization possible by extending the global production network to central Taiwan. Dramatic change…
Revisiting Economic Development in Post-war Taiwan
The post-war economic growth of Taiwan has been spectacular and became particularly dazzling in East Asia after 1997 economic turmoil. While neo-classicists interpret Taiwan Miracle as a model of free market economy, the Statists put the government policy to the core of the stage. However, neither the neoliberalists nor the statists take the phenomena of uneven development serious. By ignoring the process of geographical industrialization, both d…
State transformation and the evolution of economic nationalism in the East Asian developmental state
This paper empirically highlights the role of nationalism in the development of the semiconductor industry in Taiwan. First, it demonstrates how the pre‐1980s Taiwanese developmental state mobilised Chinese economic nationalism against Japanese colonialism and Chinese communism and adopted the strategies of graduated sovereignty, selectively subsidising certain areas and sectors, and promoting national (homogeneously imagined) territorialisation …
The spatial encounter between neoliberalism and populism in Taiwan
Performing the trade show
Divergent engagements
Professionals and entrepreneurs returning to developing countries from developed countries play key roles in the technological 'catch-up' of their home countries, but they are rarely well-conceptualized by the theories of globalization. This is especially the case in Asia. The American-trained Chinese engineers who returned to Taiwan were instrumental in creating Taiwan's excellent semiconductor industry during the 1980s and 1990s. In a similar v…
The Evolving Institutional Embeddedness of a Late‐industrial District in Taiwan
The high‐technology industrial system in Taiwan is noted by its decentralisation and geographical agglomeration. It demonstrates varieties of features of industrial district: spin‐offs, collaborations, networking, and most importantly, institutional presences. At the initial stage, Taiwan's Govern‐ment did lead in the technology transfer, rendered new firms formation and pushed the private sector hard to bring the industry into being. However, as…
The struggle over local space
Accidental Border
Borders not only delimit state territory but also differentiate state spaces, delineating the periphery from the core. However, a remote borderland is not necessarily the periphery, rather, it can function as a core component in the making of the state. By examining the border islands of Kinmen and Matsu (or Kinma, as abbreviated here) in the Taiwan Strait, we illuminate how the state relocated itself through border measures, and how accidental b…
Hsinchu Technopolis
The Hsinchu Science-based Industrial Park (HSIP) - a special zone established by the Taiwanese government to attract overseas talented engineers back to Taiwan - has been referred to as 'a Silicon Valley of the East'. As a dreamscape of Taiwan's modernity, the HSIP aimed to exhibit futuristic ways of organizing employment and living a modern lifestyle. However, the success of the HSIP has created and deepened social and urban contradictions with …
Economic integration and the cross‐Taiwan Strait reconciliation
In this paper, I aim to explain the puzzle of why economic integration leads to political separation in a cross‐Strait exchange. Being a political economist heavily influenced by Marxist tenets, I argue two things here. First, the base structure, or the economy, is an indispensable element of the politics of cross‐Strait integration. More importantly, I argue that the effect of economic integration is an issue of class‐based analysis and, accordi…
Process-ing with mechanism
This paper fleshes out the advantages of critical realism in social explanation. It does so first through criticizing the obsession with process-ing in the field of geography, which uses time to explain space, for obscuring inherited social relations and key mechanism in social research. Second, the paper argues that under such a circumstance, Yeung’s ((2019) Rethinking mechanism and process in the geographical analysis of uneven development. Dia…
In-Between Sessions at the AAG
The struggle over local space
The Limits of Guanxi Capitalism
In this research we explore the relationship between high-technology regional development and ethnic networks in the connection between Silicon Valley, California and Hsinchu, Taiwan. We elaborate the argument that regional industrial structure and embedded social networks, rather than the multinational firm, should be the focus in the study of transnational business. The complementary regional industrial structures allow economic and technologic…
Revisiting Economic Development in Post-war Taiwan
The post-war economic growth of Taiwan has been spectacular and became particularly dazzling in East Asia after 1997 economic turmoil. While neo-classicists interpret Taiwan Miracle as a model of free market economy, the Statists put the government policy to the core of the stage. However, neither the neoliberalists nor the statists take the phenomena of uneven development serious. By ignoring the process of geographical industrialization, both d…
The Evolving Institutional Embeddedness of a Late‐industrial District in Taiwan
The high‐technology industrial system in Taiwan is noted by its decentralisation and geographical agglomeration. It demonstrates varieties of features of industrial district: spin‐offs, collaborations, networking, and most importantly, institutional presences. At the initial stage, Taiwan's Govern‐ment did lead in the technology transfer, rendered new firms formation and pushed the private sector hard to bring the industry into being. However, as…
A site of transnationalism in the “Ungrounded Empire”
The geography of learning and knowledge acquisition among Asian latecomers
This paper examines the geography of technological learning and knowledge acquisition among Taiwanese and Korean firms. Specifically it focuses on the knowledge sourcing experience of Asian manufacturing latecomers in the United States (US). The Asian latecomer model of learning is characterized by a triangular spatial division of knowledge sourcing and technological production that involves the transfer and circulation of knowledge across multip…
Global Taiwan
Revisiting the Silicon Island? The Geographically Varied ‘Strategic Coupling’ in the Development of High-technology Parks in Taiwan
Yang D. Y.-R., Hsu J.-Y. and Ching C.-H. Revisiting the silicon island? The geographically varied ‘strategic coupling’ in the development of high-technology parks in Taiwan, Regional Studies. High-technology parks have been instrumental for propelling regional development and acclaimed as the panacea for curing regional decline since industrial restructuring after the 1980s in Taiwan. This paper aims to explore the divergent dynamics of different…
The spatial encounter between neoliberalism and populism in Taiwan
In-Between Sessions at the AAG
Economic integration and the cross‐Taiwan Strait reconciliation
In this paper, I aim to explain the puzzle of why economic integration leads to political separation in a cross‐Strait exchange. Being a political economist heavily influenced by Marxist tenets, I argue two things here. First, the base structure, or the economy, is an indispensable element of the politics of cross‐Strait integration. More importantly, I argue that the effect of economic integration is an issue of class‐based analysis and, accordi…
Divergent engagements
Professionals and entrepreneurs returning to developing countries from developed countries play key roles in the technological 'catch-up' of their home countries, but they are rarely well-conceptualized by the theories of globalization. This is especially the case in Asia. The American-trained Chinese engineers who returned to Taiwan were instrumental in creating Taiwan's excellent semiconductor industry during the 1980s and 1990s. In a similar v…
State Tansformation and Regional Development in Taiwan
This article deals with the transformation of the state and the change in industrial and regional development policy that took place in Taiwan in the context of a globalizing economy. Taiwan's authoritarian Kuomintang regime was able to concentrate resources on developing strategic industries in key regions, notably Hsinchu, and rendered rural industrialization possible by extending the global production network to central Taiwan. Dramatic change…
State Transformation, Policy Learning, and Exclusive Displacement in the Process of Urban Redevelopment in Taiwan
This paper explores the dynamics behind the changing regimes of urban renewal and its social impacts in Taiwan. Before the 1980s, the state was willing to solely shoulder the job of urban renewal with a wholly supportive financial budget and land appropriation law, while in the 1990s it became financially overburdened due to its renewal policy. Around the year 2000, the state turned towards promoting urban regeneration as a key business model. Th…
Performing the trade show
New Industrial Space
“New industrial space” describes the agglomeration of specialized firms flexibly coordinated to enjoy the reduction of transaction costs. In contrast to the existing industrial system of mass production, it is characterized by vertically disintegrated firms engaging in batch production, the interdependency between firms, and the emergence of informal, contract‐based or self‐employed workers. In the late 1970s and 1980s, this new form of productio…
Path Dependence
The concept of “path dependence” emphasizes that the set of decisions one can make is influenced by the decisions one has made in the past. In the late 1980s, economists introduced the concept of path dependence to investigate how economic structures are shaped by historical accidents and contingencies. With the influence of path dependence, geographers, such as Boschma, Martin, and Sunley, develop evolutionary economic geography to figure out th…
Vertical Integration
Vertical integration/disintegration are concepts that scholars use to describe the change of firm ownership structure along a given production chain. In the 1970s and 1980s in several parts of the world (e.g., central Italy and southern California) there appeared clusters of small firms which engaged in the production of highly specialized products. These clusters (or industrial districts) were in sharp contrast to the highly vertically integrate…
Economic Development Zones
Economic development zone (EDZ) is a spatial policy and experimental strategy for stimulating economic growth. Even though its roots are ancient, it is only in recent decades that EDZ has emerged as a powerful global form. Zoning technologies, as a compromise between liberal and protective regimes, can be seen as the state's intention to cope with the emerging opportunities and pressures of internationalization by redefining its territory, border…
State transformation and the evolution of economic nationalism in the East Asian developmental state
This paper empirically highlights the role of nationalism in the development of the semiconductor industry in Taiwan. First, it demonstrates how the pre‐1980s Taiwanese developmental state mobilised Chinese economic nationalism against Japanese colonialism and Chinese communism and adopted the strategies of graduated sovereignty, selectively subsidising certain areas and sectors, and promoting national (homogeneously imagined) territorialisation …
A tale of two industrial zones
Much scholarship on East Asian development has sidelined the crucial role of geopolitics by insisting that wars such as the Vietnam War had limited effects on industrial development and economic growth patterns. We find such arguments unpersuasive, and also unduly reductionist. The Vietnam War, in particular, had unambiguously powerful effects on industrial development in South Korea; but even in cases where the direct effects of war were somewha…
Hsinchu Technopolis
The Hsinchu Science-based Industrial Park (HSIP) - a special zone established by the Taiwanese government to attract overseas talented engineers back to Taiwan - has been referred to as 'a Silicon Valley of the East'. As a dreamscape of Taiwan's modernity, the HSIP aimed to exhibit futuristic ways of organizing employment and living a modern lifestyle. However, the success of the HSIP has created and deepened social and urban contradictions with …
Process-ing with mechanism
This paper fleshes out the advantages of critical realism in social explanation. It does so first through criticizing the obsession with process-ing in the field of geography, which uses time to explain space, for obscuring inherited social relations and key mechanism in social research. Second, the paper argues that under such a circumstance, Yeung’s ((2019) Rethinking mechanism and process in the geographical analysis of uneven development. Dia…
Accidental Border
Borders not only delimit state territory but also differentiate state spaces, delineating the periphery from the core. However, a remote borderland is not necessarily the periphery, rather, it can function as a core component in the making of the state. By examining the border islands of Kinmen and Matsu (or Kinma, as abbreviated here) in the Taiwan Strait, we illuminate how the state relocated itself through border measures, and how accidental b…
Reassembling transnational planning knowledge in the 1950s-Taiwan
The study revisits the flows of planning knowledge during the early Cold War in Taiwan. The case of Chunghsing New Village (CNV) reveals that planning practices can travel from some place to others for learning and imitation but variegated urban geographies result in diversified territorialities. In a state of wartime emergency, transnational knowledge travel and its local learning process are often practiced in a hasty, mixed, and fragmented man…
Political science (20 works) · Economics (18 works) · China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance (12 works) · Economic geography (11 works) · Economy (11 works) · Geography (11 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Law (10 works) · Politics (10 works) · Business (8 works)