Political oppositions in industrialising Asia / edited by Garry Rodan.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Theorising political opposition in East and Southeast Asia / Garry Rodan -- 2. The ebb and flow of civil society and the decline of the Left in Southeast Asia / Kevin Hewison and Garry Rodan -- 3. Political oppositions and regime change in Thailand / Kevin Hewison -- 4. State-society relations and political opposition in Singapore / Garry Rodan -- 5. The syncretic state and the structuring of oppositional politics in Malaysia / James V. Jesudason -- 6. The changing ruling elite and political opposition in China / Anita Chan -- 7. Chinese political opposition in exile / He Baogang -- 8. The broadening base of political opposition in Indonesia / Edward Aspinall -- 9. Indonesian middle-class opposition in the 1990s / Ariel Heryanto -- 10. New social movements and the changing nature of political opposition in South Korea / Bronwen Dalton and James Cotton -- 11. Mobilisational authoritarianism and political opposition in Taiwan / Shelley Rigger.

In the light of sweeping social and economic transformations across Asia, some political commentators have predicted that the expansion of civil society and the rapid development of liberal democracy will necessarily follow. But the scenarios may be more complex. This book reveals the diversity of political opposition in Asia, including analyses of the nature of new social movements and organisations outside institutional party politics which are contesting the exercise of state power.

Nine original case studies open up the varieties of political oppositions across Asia. Garry Rodan's hard-hitting analysis of the problems of current political theorising in relation to Asia sets the case studies firmly in the midst of the latest debates about democratisation. Political Oppositions in Industrialising Asia shatters complacent assumptions about the progress of liberal democracy.