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Cover -- Half title -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of contents -- List of illustrations -- Notes on contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Part I: Overview -- 1 Comparing the tripartite links of middle class, civil society and democratization in Asia: positive, dubious and negative -- Part II: The positive links in Taiwan and South Korea -- 2 The tripartite links of middle class, civil society and democracy in Taiwan: 1980-2016 -- 3 Democracy and institution building through civil societyactivism in Taiwan: the case of the Judicial Reform Foundation -- 4 The tripartite links of middle class, civil society and democratization in South Korea -- Part III: The dubious links in the Philippines and Indonesia -- 5 The middle-class-led Left movement in civil society's role in the Philippines' democratization process -- 6 Coalition politics and the contested democracy in the Philippines -- 7 Democratization and religious NGOs in Indonesia -- Part IV: The negative links in Thailand -- 8 Contingent authoritarians: why Thai civil society and the middle class oppose democracy -- 9 Thailand at the critical royal transition: the middle class,civil society and democratisation -- 10 From paragons to opponents of democracy: middle class in civil society's role in Thailand's democratization -- Index

This article examines nonstandard or precarious workers in Taiwan since 2000. It traces the origin of nonstandard work back to increasing pressures faced by business in global competition and financial crises. Its emergence was also accompanied by the decline of the traditional informal labor sector and the increase of unemployment. It is argued that the issue of precarious work can mainly be explained by the rise of the "informalization" of employment among the formerly employed. The three types of the nonstandard work and dispatched work are discussed, along with specific case studies. Reactions from labor movements and social critics to the alarming problems facing precarious dispatched workers have finally caught the attention of the government. The concluding section assesses the policy responses to the growth of precarious work.

This is the fourth volume produced by the same editors, and is a collection of 22 articles from the Fourth Conference on Social Indicators in Chinese Societies organized by these four Hong Kong academics in 2000. The authors are social scientists (especially sociologists) specializing in social indicators research in Taiwan, Hong Kong and China.

Investigates the Tawianese manifestations of four processes & phenomena of cultural globalization as identified by Peter L. Berger (1997) -- international business ("Davos") culture; global popular ("McWorld") culture; faculty club or world intellectual culture; & popular religious culture. Focus is on the intersection of these globalizing cultural forces & traditional Taiwanese culture, particularly at the local level. Indigenous responses to the processes of cultural globalization are analyzed, revealing varying degrees of synthesis of the local & the global. Despite the power of globalizing cultural forces since the 1980s, it is concluded that Taiwan has maintained its cultural diversity & continued to promote its cultural heterogeneity. 19 References. K. Hyatt Stewart