Introduction: Point of Entry (Ian Shaw ) Chapter One: Social Work Within Governmental, Social and Cultural Regimes (Ian Shaw and Patricia O'Neill) Chapter Two: Social Work Metamorphoses: Practice, Education and Research (Rosaleen Ow) Chapter Three: Professional Practices in National Contexts (Ian Shaw) Part 1: Soft Authoritarian Governments Chapter Four: Hong Kong: Ruling Principles of The Government and Responses of Social Work Education and Practice (Sam W K Yu and Ruby C M Chau) Chapter Five: A New Horizon for Institutionalizing the Social Work Profession: Is There a New Hope for Malaysia? (Azlinda Azman and Paramjit Singh Jamir Singh ) Chapter Six: Social Work Education in Soft-Authoritarian Singapore (Yen Kiat Chong and Irene Y.H. Ng) Chapter Seven: Socioeconomic Development in the Context of Social Work and Social Welfare in Thailand (Decha Sungkawan and David Engstrom ) Part 2: Liberal democracies Chapter Eight: Professional Uncertainty among Japanese Social Workers (Takahiro Asano and Michihiko Tokoro) Chapter Nine: Social Work Education in the Making of a Welfare State: South Korea's Experience (Ok Kyung Yang, Bong Joo Lee, and Kyo-seong Kim ) Chapter Ten: Social Work in Taiwan: State Programming and the Search for an Empowered Profession (Yeun-wen Ku) Part 3: Fragile democracyChapter Eleven: Programming of Social Work in Indonesia (Adi Fahrudin) Part 4: State socialismChapter Twelve: The Governmental Technology of Social Work in China (Leung Tse Fong Terry , Luk Tak Chuen and Xiang Rong) Chapter Thirteen: Social Work Education in Vietnam (Richard Hugman and Nguyen Thi Thai Lan) Endnotes References Index.