"Over the course of the last half century, the growth economies of Southeast Asia, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam, have transformed themselves into middle income countries. This book looks at how the very success of these economies has bred new challenges,...

"China, Laos and Vietnam are three of a handful of late socialist countries where capitalist economics rubs up against party-state politics. In these countries, sweeping processes of change open up new vistas of opportunity and imaginaries of the future alongside much uncertainty and anxiety,...