Institutions and Social Mobilization

This book marks a major contribution since the work of Tan Liok Eee (1997) on the Dongjiaozong movement in Malaysia. The author's familiarity with both popular and academic writings in Mandarin has yielded rare first-hand and often bottom-up views on the Dongjiaozong movement from actors directly involved in the movement. As a result readers get a better understanding of the personalities leadership dynamics creative strategies of control and resistance within this social movement as well as its ability to exploit political vulnerabilities and interpersonal relationships to cajole negotiate and arm-twist the state in its bid to defend Chinese education in Malaysia. This book will be of interest to practitioners in the fields of political science and Malaysian studies in general and the study of state-society relations and social movements in non-liberal democratic contexts in particular. - Associate Professor Goh Being Lan Department of Southeast Asian Studies National University of Singapore