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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
...Charlotte Bruckermann Abstract Faced with environmental degradation and atmospheric pollution, Chinese citizens increasingly envision the good life as a green life. Yet in cities and the countryside, understandings of environmental hardship and ecological redress diverge and at times even...
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Pedagogies of Life and Death: Transforming Immigrant/Refugee Students and Asian American Studies
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positions (1997) 5 (2): 551–577.
Published: 01 May 1997
...Peter Nien-chu Kiang Copyright © 1997 by Duke University Press 1997 Pedagogies of life and Death: Transforming Immigrant/Refugee Students and Asian
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Peter Nien-chu Kiang
Changing Landscapes
Nearly three decades have passed since Third World...
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Modernism, Hysteria, and the Colonial Double Bind: Pak T'aewŏn's One Day in the Life of the Author, Mr. Kubo
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positions (2013) 21 (3): 607–636.
Published: 01 August 2013
...Christopher P. Hanscom This article addresses the conjunction of disease, desire, and language in modernist Korean fiction of the late colonial period, particularly in Pak T'aewŏn's representative novella One Day in the Life of the Author, Mr. Kubo (1934). I bring to bear two central concepts...
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Let Us Live! Empowerment and the Rhetoric of Life in the Japanese Precarity Movement
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positions (2014) 22 (1): 41–69.
Published: 01 February 2014
... to predecessor terms such as good-for-nothing ” ( dame ) or lower stratum ( kasô ). Secondly, I turn to the vitalistic element in the precarity movement's discourse, which is evident in the celebration of fun and the sensual or bodily experience of being “alive.” The rhetoric of “life” in the precarity movement...
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North Korea's Vinalon City: Industrialism as Socialist Everyday Life
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positions (2014) 22 (4): 809–836.
Published: 01 November 2014
... reality, as vinalon is worn as clothing and produced by the workers. The everyday dimension is precisely where the ideological workings of state power are hidden. Furthermore, the history of vinalon reveals a characteristic of ideology of work—the subsumption of life by labor—a characteristic...
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One Life for Sale: Youth Culture, Labor Politics, and New Idealism in China
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positions (2015) 23 (3): 515–543.
Published: 01 August 2015
... graduate who started to sell her “remaining life time” online in 2008. For a small fee, Chen would do whatever her clients requested within reason, and she blogged about her daily activities. Her services, especially her charitable activities, aroused much public attention and inspired imitators nationwide...
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Writing Colonial Relations of Everyday Life in Senryu
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positions (2008) 16 (3): 601–628.
Published: 01 August 2008
... and depicts colonial life in the mode of satire and parody. Particularly characteristic of this poetic genre employed by the Japanese settlement community is its heteroglossic nature that opens up the possibility of multiple subject positions and the language that readily implements rhetorical strategies...
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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
... 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...
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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
..., the state, and the market in their vision of the good life, and how aspirations to the good life extend beyond the local and the social to include the cosmopolitan and cosmological scales. [email protected] Copyright 2024 by Duke University Press 2024 performance good life cosmological...
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Not before Twenty-Five: Contesting Marriage and Looking for the Good Life in Contemporary Urban China
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positions (2024) 32 (1): 69–88.
Published: 01 February 2024
...Roberta Zavoretti Abstract This article explores how women of different class backgrounds contest the imperative to enter heteronormative marriage in urban China. While the state and the market propose marriage as the only path to the good life, these women describe it as a risky enterprise...
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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
...Jiazhi Fengjiang Abstract For ordinary people in late-socialist China, the good life seems to be singularly shaped: in the future and the elsewhere, it is oriented toward one's own well-being and the well-being of future generations. This article aims to open up discussion about the different...
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Spirits with Morality: Social Criticism and Notions of a Good Life in Laos through the Bangbot Imaginary
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positions (2024) 32 (1): 191–208.
Published: 01 February 2024
...Michael Kleinod-Freudenberg; Sypha Chanthavong Abstract This article approaches notions of a good life in Laos via the imaginary of the bangbot (literally: “hidden in the shade,” i.e., “invisible”), a benevolent forest spirit of high moral integrity. The bangbot live in observance of the monastic...
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Protecting the Body, Living the Good Life: Negotiating Health in Rural Lowland Laos
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positions (2024) 32 (1): 151–170.
Published: 01 February 2024
...Elizabeth M. Elliott Abstract In rural lowland Laos, aspirations to a good life and visions of well-being are defined and impacted by the process of negotiating health. The state of sabai (well-being) situates the person in relation to their family, social, and spiritual worlds, and the associated...
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Eating Out in Contemporary Hanoi: Middle-Class Food Practices, Capitalist Transformations, and the Late-Socialist Good Life
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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...
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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
... : Columbia University Press . Chua Jocelyn Lim . 2014 . In Pursuit of the Good Life: Aspiration and Suicide in Globalizing South India . Oakland : University of California Press . Farquhar Judith , and Qicheng Zhang . 2012 . Ten Thousand Things: Nurturing Life in Contemporary...
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Can the “Comfort Women” Footage Speak? The Afterlives of Camera Images as Document and the Flow of Life
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positions (2023) 31 (4): 803–838.
Published: 01 November 2023
... of things that are difficult to freeze and solidify. His concept of the “flow of life” describes an affinity with life (in the form of everyday life) that he theorized films possess but photographs do not. This article seeks a visual sociological method to explore film as a medium that embodies the reality...
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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
...Kirsten W. Endres Abstract With Vietnam's countrywide electrification rate approaching 100 percent, electricity has become ever more indispensable and essential to the quality of everyday life. The steady upsurge in household electricity consumption over the past years has been driven by a growing...
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The Market Life of Japanese Literature in Postwar America: Knopf, Translation, and the Archives of Cultural Commerce
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positions (2024) 32 (3): 513–537.
Published: 01 August 2024
... in literary culture emerges from economies of representation that mix pecuniary and aesthetic regimes of valuation. In other studies of the market life of Japanese literature, Edward Mack ( 2010 ), Stephen Snyder ( 2016 ), and Nathan Shockey ( 2020 ) have made this point by illuminating the confluence...
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in Intersecting Labor in the Social Factory: Trajectory of a Migrant Woman in South China
> positions: asia critique
Published: 01 May 2023
Figure 2 Zuo Mei's Life Advice post. Courtesy of Zuo Mei.
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in Intersecting Labor in the Social Factory: Trajectory of a Migrant Woman in South China
> positions: asia critique
Published: 01 May 2023
Figure 3 Zuo Mei's Life Advice post. Courtesy of Zuo Mei.
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