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Volume 32, Issue 1
February 1, 2024
positions: asia critique Cover Image for Volume 32, Issue 1
ISSN 1067-9847
EISSN 1527-8271
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the good life in late-socialist Asia: aspirations, politics, and possibilities

Guest Editors’ Introduction

Guest Editors’ Introduction
Minh T. N. Nguyen; Phill Wilcox; Jake Lin
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Plugged into the Good Life: Living Electrically through the Ages in Urban Vietnam
Kirsten W. Endres
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Eating Out in Contemporary Hanoi: Middle-Class Food Practices, Capitalist Transformations, and the Late-Socialist Good Life
Arve Hansen
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Not before Twenty-Five: Contesting Marriage and Looking for the Good Life in Contemporary Urban China
Roberta Zavoretti
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Dancing and Rapping the Good Life: Sharing Aspirations and Values in Vietnamese Hip-Hop
Sandra Kurfürst
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Philanthropy Fever from Below: On the Possibilities of a Good Life in Late-Socialist China
Jiazhi Fengjiang
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The Good Life as the Green Life: Digital Environmentalism and Ecological Consciousness in China
Charlotte Bruckermann
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Protecting the Body, Living the Good Life: Negotiating Health in Rural Lowland Laos
Elizabeth M. Elliott
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Summer Happiness: Performing the Good Life in a Tibetan Town
Fan Zhang
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Spirits with Morality: Social Criticism and Notions of a Good Life in Laos through the Bangbot Imaginary
Michael Kleinod-Freudenberg; Sypha Chanthavong
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Afterword: What Good Life, and Why Now?
Li Zhang
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Contributors

Contributors
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Erratum

Erratum
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