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Gordon Mathews is professor of anthropology at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He is the author of Global Culture/ Individual Identity: Searching for Home in the Cultural Supermarket and What Makes Life Worth Living? How Japanese and Americans Make Sense of Their Worlds, coauthor of Hong Kong, China: Learning to Belong to a Nation, and coeditor of several books.
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There is nowhere else in the world quite like Chungking Mansions, a dilapidated seventeen-story commercial and residential structure in the heart of Hong Kong’s tourist district. A remarkably motley group of people call the building home; Pakistani phone stall operators, Chinese guesthouse workers, Nepalese heroin addicts, Indonesian sex workers, and traders and asylum seekers from all over Asia and Africa live and work there—even backpacking tourists rent rooms. In short, it is possibly the most globalized spot on the planet.
But as Ghetto at the Center of the World shows us, a trip to Chungking Mansions reveals a far less glamorous side of globalization. A world away from the gleaming headquarters of multinational corporations, Chungking Mansions is emblematic of the way globalization actually works for most of the world’s people. Gordon Mathews’s intimate portrayal of the building’s polyethnic residents lays bare their intricate connections to the international circulation of goods, money, and ideas. We come to understand the day-to-day realities of globalization through the stories of entrepreneurs from Africa carting cell phones in their luggage to sell back home and temporary workers from South Asia struggling to earn money to bring to their families. And we see that this so-called ghetto—which inspires fear in many of Hong Kong’s other residents, despite its low crime rate—is not a place of darkness and desperation but a beacon of hope.
Gordon Mathews’s compendium of riveting stories enthralls and instructs in equal measure, making Ghetto at the Center of the World not just a fascinating tour of a singular place but also a peek into the future of life on our shrinking planet.
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重庆大厦的出名：20C 70‘s被写进《孤独星球》，成为西方嬉皮士和背包客的逗留地。 基础数据：17层高，每晚4000人留宿，129个国家 撒哈拉以南地区20%的手机都是从重庆大厦发货过去的 P2：香港在70年代是工业生产的中心，在80年代末成为中国货品集散地。同一时期，异于内地的香...
评分二十二岁之前对重庆大厦的印象全部来自于墨镜王的《重庆森林》，那种漂游的都市爱情，作为背景的重庆大厦也不过是拿来聊天的话头。 真的去到香港，站在重庆大厦门口也只是拍照留念，进去是不敢的，门口操着一口流利粤语的南亚小哥和你兜售手机就让人立马警觉，这一切和身处其中...
评分一直很想读这本书，一边听着宅男帮忙升级好电脑后的欢乐的歌声，一边在其虹口小仓里火眼晶晶发现了这本书，周日在家一口气读完了。这本书介绍的重庆大厦是一座残旧的大楼，商住两用，拥有大批南亚及非洲的住户，有来来往往的商人，有兢兢业业的非法劳工，有慵懒的避难者...
评分一月底从香港诚品书店买回这本书 断断续续看到最近才终于看完 第一次看完一本竖行繁体的书 而且还非常厚 确实是有点辛苦的 因为不太习惯所以常常这一行看完了找不准哪是下一行 但是好在这是一本有趣的书 尽管是一位人类学教授经过几年的调查与记录写出的一本学术著作 ...
评分在讨论全球化造成的飞地的时候，容易关注两极而非中段。的确，全球化议题中更能引发人们讨论兴味的总是高精尖技术的共享，或关怀维度爆表的底层贫民窟。 不大记得是《落脚城市》还是哪一本相关书籍里都有说到，极端底层的贫民窟现象已然成为第三世界国家的一种重要...
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评分#Low-end globalization is not the world's past; it is, in at least some respects, the world's future. Chungking Mansions, in all its particularities, will of course vanish, but in a larger sense, the ghetto at the center of the world may become, by and by, all the world.
评分#Low-end globalization is not the world's past; it is, in at least some respects, the world's future. Chungking Mansions, in all its particularities, will of course vanish, but in a larger sense, the ghetto at the center of the world may become, by and by, all the world.
评分总的来说，感觉像一篇巨型的专栏文章，理论意涵弱得很，不知道问什么中英文版的评分都那么高。全书分“地人物法”四个部分，很malinowskian，虽然表面上恰恰在强调重庆大厦的全球／多点联系。另一方面，文笔很好，对neoliberalism的温和同情也算是对几乎已经演变成hegemonic discourse的左翼叙事的反抗。
评分low-end globalization, neoliberalism, the clash of civilization, asylum seekers, hong kong, law
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