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The good life in late-socialist Asia: Aspirations, politics, and possibilities - publication announcement
We are pleased to announce the publication of the positions:asia critique special issue “The good life in late-socialist Asia: Aspirations, politics, and possibilities” guest edited by Minh T. N. Nguyen, Phill Wilcox and Jake Lin: https://read.dukeupress.edu/positions/issue. Below is the table of content of the issue.
This special issue emerged from a conference under the same title in Bielefeld in 2019 from which another special issue has been published by the European Journal of East Asian Studies, under the title “Rural Life in Late Socialism: Politics of Development and Imaginaries of the Future”: https://brill.com/view/journals/ejea/20/1/ejea.20.issue-1.xml, which later became an open-access book in updated form with Brill: https://brill.com/display/title/63621?rskey=s2AkuQ&result=4
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The good life in late-socialist Asia: aspirations, politics, and possibilities
Guest Editors’ Introduction
Minh T. N. Nguyen; Phill Wilcox; Jake Lin
Articles
Plugged into the Good Life: Living Electrically through the Ages in Urban Vietnam
Dancing and Rapping the Good Life: Sharing Aspirations and Values in Vietnamese Hip-Hop
Philanthropy Fever from Below: On the Possibilities of a Good Life in Late-Socialist China
The Good Life as the Green Life: Digital Environmentalism and Ecological Consciousness in China
Protecting the Body, Living the Good Life: Negotiating Health in Rural Lowland Laos
Summer Happiness: Performing the Good Life in a Tibetan Town
Michael Kleinod-Freudenberg; Sypha Chanthavong
Afterword: What Good Life, and Why Now?