State and NGOs: issues and analytical framework -- Bangladesh: a large NGO sector supported by foreign donors -- India-NGOs: intermediary agents or institutional reformers? -- Sri Lanka: community consultants in an underdeveloped welfare state -- Pakistan: Regulations and potentiality in a fragmented society -- Philippines: from agents to politcal actors -- Thailand: a crossing of critical parallel relationships -- Vietnam: control of NGOs by NGOs -- Indonesia: flexible NGOs vs inconsistent state control -- Malaysia: dual structure in the state-NGO relationship -- Singapore: subtle NGO control by a developmentalist welfare state -- China: social restructuring and the emergence of NGOs -- Hong Kong: uneasiness among administrative agents -- Taiwan: from subjects of oppression to the instruments of "Taiwanization" -- South Korea: advocy for democratization -- Japan: from activist groups to management organizations

1. Non-governmental organizations -- Political aspects -- Asia
2. Democratization -- Asia
3. countries and regions
4. international organizations
5. Asia -- Politics and government