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Musica Practica : The Sound of the Beijing New Worker Band
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positions (2023) 31 (2): 281–301.
Published: 01 May 2023
... tiaowu de ren 与机器跳舞的人 ( Dancing with Machines , 2014), Wo yao dasheng chang 我要大声唱 ( I Want to Sing Loudly , 2016), Hong wuyue 红五月 ( Red May , 2017), Xin gongren 新工人 ( New Workers , 2019), and Cong tou yue 从头越 ( From the Top , 2019). 7 I interviewed Xu Duo 许多 and Sun Heng 孙恒 on February 21...
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Minor Events and Grand Dreams: Ethnic Outsiders in China’s Postcolonial World Order
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positions (2019) 27 (4): 739–771.
Published: 01 November 2019
..., a metaphor for Xinjiang s integration into China. The photography exhibition to celebrate the sixtieth anniversary of the establishment of the PRC was curated by the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region government and the Xinjiang CCP Standing positions 27:4 November 2019 748 Committee. Photographs of top...
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China Anxiety: Deracializing Debates about Housing and Education
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positions (2024) 32 (4): 917–941.
Published: 01 November 2024
... and occupational skills. Skilled migrants now comprise 70 percent of the overall permanent migration intake (Australian Government 2019). Australia has seen a dramatic shift in the profile of its migrants, from the “working class ethnics” of the postwar period to the current “multicultural middle class” (Colic...
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Dancing and Rapping the Good Life: Sharing Aspirations and Values in Vietnamese Hip-Hop
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positions (2024) 32 (1): 89–105.
Published: 01 February 2024
..., in hip-hop culture late-socialist youth are able to carve out their own spaces as they seek economic independence from their parents and withdraw from societal expectations. In his account of young people's navigation through a precarious urban environment, AbdouMaliq Simone ( 2019 ) outlines...
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Clashing Gender in the Age of Transnational Infrastructural Capitalism: The Vocational Education and Subject Making of China's Future Workers
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positions (2024) 32 (4): 797–820.
Published: 01 November 2024
...Anita Koo; Ngai Pun Abstract Accompanying the “China Dream” as a symbol of the advent of Chinese transnational infrastructural capitalism, a new project of subject making is emerging: an increasing number of Chinese youth, especially those from working-class backgrounds, have entered the expanded...
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Cosmopolitanism from Below: Union Film's Adaptation of World Classics
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positions (2023) 31 (3): 623–648.
Published: 01 August 2023
... a sense of romantic imprisonment in Anna. Courtesy of Television Broadcasts Limited. Figures 2 (top) and 3 (bottom) Cast out from the family, Anna, on the street corner, looks back to the house to say farewell to her daughter at last sight. Courtesy of Television Broadcasts Limited. Figures...
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Philanthropy Fever from Below: On the Possibilities of a Good Life in Late-Socialist China
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positions (2024) 32 (1): 107–128.
Published: 01 February 2024
.... It draws from my long-term ethnographic fieldwork on the emergence of grassroots philanthropy in Haicheng County in Wenzhou, southeast China, from 2015 to 2017, supplemented with short field trips in 2018, 2019, 2020, and 2022. 4 In Wenzhou the most popular forms of grassroots philanthropy are offering...
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The Cultural Politics of Asian Life in Carl Mydans's Photojournalism of Tule Lake and Yosu-Sunchon
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positions (2025) 33 (2): 203–229.
Published: 01 May 2025
... discourse of modernity, Mbembe ( 2019 : 68) suggests that “instead of considering reason as the subject's truth, we can look to other foundational categories that are less abstract and more tangible, such as life and death.” Taking inspiration from Mbembe, this article's turn to images of life represented...
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Flight from the Womb: Mothers and Daughters in Indian Chick Lit
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positions (2019) 27 (4): 713–737.
Published: 01 November 2019
... high, one on top of the other. Or aluminum foil from kebab rolls and on the rare days that they actually cook, potato peelings in addition to alcohol bottles are ubiquitous (Madhavan 2008: 137). On the other hand, the posh couple s trash on the ground floor prompts Arshi to fantasize about knock- ing...
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The Good Life as the Green Life: Digital Environmentalism and Ecological Consciousness in China
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positions (2024) 32 (1): 129–149.
Published: 01 February 2024
... rolled his eyes. He lifted his gaze from the computer screen and gazed across the shop he managed, a subsidiary of one of the largest e-commerce platforms in China. In the spring of 2019 Bingwen was in his late twenties and an only child. Although he studied finance at a first-tier city university, he...
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Afterword: What Good Life, and Why Now?
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positions (2024) 32 (1): 209–216.
Published: 01 February 2024
... modernity is undeniably built on the shattered dreams of the poor and disenfranchised. Based on her research among waste traders in Hanoi, Minh Nguyen ( 2019 ) shows that Vietnamese middle-class aspirations for wealth and success are inseparable from dirty, harsh labor performed by those in the recycling...
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Summer Happiness: Performing the Good Life in a Tibetan Town
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positions (2024) 32 (1): 171–189.
Published: 01 February 2024
.... It is the basis of cultural intimacy and the key to understanding the local vision of the good life. It also illuminates a different perspective from a top-down one that easily treats the state as a violent hand transforming ritual into heritage. As I further demonstrate in section 1, both the laymen...
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Ideological Conversion: Mongolia's Transition from Socialism to Postsocialism
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positions (2021) 29 (2): 235–265.
Published: 01 May 2021
... in poisonous smoke from October until March (Sorace and Jargalsaikhan 2019). The majority of the government s attempts to mitigate the air pollution have been targeted at ger district residents, ranging from granting subsidies to purchase fuel- efficient stoves to replacing the ger districts with apartments...
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Building a Global Feminist Alliance for Peace in East Asia
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positions (2020) 28 (2): 481–495.
Published: 01 May 2020
...Sit Tsui; Lau Kin Chi In an era of vacillations between threats of a nuclear war and promises of peace breakthroughs in East Asia, this article takes examples from public campaigns of women’s peace groups—such as Women’s Peace Walk, Women Cross DMZ (the Demilitarized Zone), Women’s Active Museum...
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Photography and the Biopolitics of Fear: Witnessing the Philippine Drug War
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positions (2020) 28 (4): 905–933.
Published: 01 November 2020
... are thus related moments in the emergence of the photographer from his or her initial state of confusion and paralysis. In the context of Duterte s narco- and necro- obsessions (Rafael 2019), such moments assume considerable signi - cance. It is to these processes that I now turn. Facing Death When asked...
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“I Want to Make Queer Films, But Not LGBT Films”: An Interview with He Xiaopei
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positions (2019) 27 (4): 811–823.
Published: 01 November 2019
.... This was positions 27:4 November 2019 814 because we felt there was too much negativity around questions of sexuality. From our lesbian organizing, we knew how telling positive stories could be really empowering and encouraging. It was not that negative sexuality didn t exist; it was just that the space for positive...
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Caught between Two Transnationalisms: Mainland Chinese Students’ Emotional Conflicts in Recent Hong Kong Protests
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positions (2024) 32 (4): 873–893.
Published: 01 November 2024
... : Duke University Press . Grossberg Lawrence . 1992 . We Gotta Get Out of This Place: Popular Conservatism and Postmodern Culture . London : Routledge . Guo Yingjie . 2019 . “ From Marxism to Nationalism: The Chinese Communist Party's Discursive Shift in the Post-Mao Era...
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Plugged into the Good Life: Living Electrically through the Ages in Urban Vietnam
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positions (2024) 32 (1): 27–47.
Published: 01 February 2024
... Technology from the Open Hearth to the Microwave . New York : Basic . Schwenkel Christina . 2019 . “ The Current Never Stops: Intimacies of Energy Infrastructure in Vietnam .” In The Promise of Infrastructure , edited by Anand Nikhil , Gupta Akhil , and Appel Hannah , 103 – 32...
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positions (2024) 32 (4): 771–796.
Published: 01 November 2024
... and elite classes, and outbound travel by tourists and students (Oakes and Schein 2006 ; Xiang 2016 ; Martin 2022 ). Annual international departures soared from 3 million in 1990 to 155 million in 2019 (Xinhua She 2020 ). Pál Nyíri ( 2010 ) has made an extended study of how increased human mobility...
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positions (2023) 31 (2): 257–279.
Published: 01 May 2023
... (Pozzana 2019 ). New worker writing can constitute refuge from toil and pain rather than an extension of the productive process as it supposedly was in the age of top-down collectivization. And yet, a similar valorization of the amateur or untrained artist is in evidence, based on the notion...
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