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positions (2024) 32 (1): 49–67.
Published: 01 February 2024
..., and the search for the good life, eating out has become embedded in everyday life in late-socialist Hanoi. Ongoing food transformations are seeing many of these food practices move from the streets to air-conditioned restaurants. Based on eating ethnography, this article analyzes the boom in eating out...
View articletitled, Eating Out in Contemporary <span class="search-highlight">Hanoi</span>: Middle-Class Food Practices, Capitalist Transformations, and the Late-Socialist Good Life
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in Plugged into the Good Life: Living Electrically through the Ages in Urban Vietnam
> positions: asia critique
Published: 01 February 2024
Figure 1 Electricity meters on the outer wall of a multistory building in Hanoi, 2019.
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Figure 2 Rice cookers on display at an electronics supermarket in Hanoi, 2019.
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positions 11630866.
Published: 27 February 2025
...Gertrud Hüwelmeier Abstract This essay examines the everyday life and death of residents in urban Hanoi during the fourth wave of the pandemic in the summer of 2021. The article considers how city dwellers developed manifold creative strategies to deal with government requirements and argue...
View articletitled, Face Masks for the Ancestors: Everyday Life and Death during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Urban <span class="search-highlight">Hanoi</span>
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positions (2024) 32 (1): 89–105.
Published: 01 February 2024
... Suboi, Vietnam's “Queen of Rap,” is internationally renowned, and more and more young women are engaging in dancing on the streets. This article investigates the aspirations of female hip-hop practitioners in Vietnam's major cities, Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City. What does leading the good life mean...
Journal Article
positions (2005) 13 (2): 411–439.
Published: 01 May 2005
... Trung emperor in Hanoi, fought the Nguyên˜ dynasty
(1802–1945), led by Nguyên˜ Ánh (r. 1781–1820, from 1802–20 as the Gia
Long emperor) from Saigon.
Because they were worried about the continuity or even the survival...
View articletitled, Women and Mythology in Vietnamese History: Lê Ngọc Hân, H`ô Xuân Hương, and the Production of Historical Continuity in Vietnam
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positions (2024) 32 (1): 27–47.
Published: 01 February 2024
...Figure 1 Electricity meters on the outer wall of a multistory building in Hanoi, 2019. ...
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Journal Article
positions (2012) 20 (2): 437–470.
Published: 01 May 2012
... University Press
positions 20:2 Spring 2012 438
Twenty years later, Building C of Quang Trung was demolished. The
chief Vietnamese architect from Hanoi, Mr. Văn, who trained in Weimar,
East...
Journal Article
positions (2012) 20 (2): 405–434.
Published: 01 May 2012
... within the larger transformations gripping Vietnam today. Copyright 2012 by Duke University Press 2012 Trung Hoà- Nhân Chính: Constructing a New Urban Center in Hanoi.
Photo by Christina Schwenkel
Neo- Geomancy and Real Estate Fever in Postreform Vietnam
Erik Harms
Urban Geomancers...
Journal Article
positions 11628307.
Published: 27 February 2025
... on religion, transnationalism, media and materiality. Ethnographic fieldwork was carried out in Berlin, Prague, Warsaw, and Hanoi and has focused on transnational cultural, religious, and economic connections of migrants between Vietnam and its postsocialist diasporas. Over the past ten years, she has...
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positions (1994) 2 (2): 294–317.
Published: 01 May 1994
...Peter Zinoman Copyright © 1994 by Duke University Press 1994 Declassifying Nguyen Huy Thiep
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In 1989, historian Greg Lockhart published a brief Vietnamese-language
essay in the Hanoi-based journal, Literary Studies (Tap Chi Van...
Journal Article
positions (2013) 21 (3): 497–546.
Published: 01 August 2013
... on the subject.5 However,
in contrast to its northern counterpart, Hanoi, which has been the subject of
two important monographs, no systematic study has yet singled out colonial
Saigon and its original impact on Vietnamese urban society.6 Accordingly...
Journal Article
positions (2012) 20 (2): 529–558.
Published: 01 May 2012
..., but only four became pregnant.2 Linh had exhausted most
biomedical and traditional medicine treatments available in Hanoi when
she read about the IVF pregnancies in the newspaper. Linh noted to me
the hospital’s low success rate of less than...
Journal Article
positions (2024) 32 (1): 217–220.
Published: 01 February 2024
... Anthropology, University of Cologne. She is cospeaker of the Global South Studies Center. Her research interests include urban studies, youth, gender, and social movements in Southeast Asia. Sandra has worked on public spaces and public spheres in the city of Hanoi. In her recent book Dancing Youth: Hip Hop...
Journal Article
positions (2012) 20 (2): 561–591.
Published: 01 May 2012
... traction in the Second Indochina War. Hanoi’s discourse on
the People as One represented the partition of Vietnam as an “amputa-
tion of the nation,” Hanoi casting itself as the true untainted Vietnam and
disqualifying the Saigon regime...
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positions (2012) 20 (2): 595–625.
Published: 01 May 2012
... the negative ones, as some theoreticians
claim.
Evidence of both concerns quickly disappeared after the National
Congress, but then reappeared in August of when, following a brief
and contentious trial, the Hanoi People’s Court...
Journal Article
positions (2008) 16 (2): 329–358.
Published: 01 May 2008
... have little or no romantic involvement or emotional ties to “the
rear.” Another informant of mine, a literature teacher in Hanoi who was
a teenager at the time, said that though the Youth Association had little
authority to make young people...
Journal Article
positions (2008) 16 (2): 483–484.
Published: 01 May 2008
...
the political economy of men’s extramarital sex in Hanoi.
Catherine Ryu is an associate professor of Japanese language and culture at Michigan State
University. While her primary field is classical Japanese literature (Heian narratives), her...
Journal Article
positions (2012) 20 (2): 473–493.
Published: 01 May 2012
... will be illuminated. Copyright 2012 by Duke University Press 2012 Contrasting femininities on the streets of Hanoi. Photo by Christina Schwenkel
Figure 1 Renova “makeover.” Photo by Erik Harms
Ho Chi Minh City’s Beauty Regime:
Haptic Technologies of the Self in the New Millennium
Nina Hien...
Journal Article
positions (2004) 12 (2): 401–429.
Published: 01 May 2004
..., clothing,
and miscellaneous handmade goods (zakka) in Japan is closely associated
with tourism to Vietnam. Nowadays, the Japanese shopper-tourist going to
Ho Chi Minh City or Hanoi for the first time will not experience a journey...
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