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发表于2024-05-05
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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.
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.
一开始读很兴奋,然而读完觉得确实还是太复古了,这样的民族志,一个记者或者作家也可以做到,甚至做得更好(如果有同样的时间)。当然不是不可以当做普及读物,但是这样一碗水端平的呈现,没有问题或解读的视角,让人看到的还是一种位于全球化中心的他者,可能最后还是满足了读者的猎奇心理
评分一开始读很兴奋,然而读完觉得确实还是太复古了,这样的民族志,一个记者或者作家也可以做到,甚至做得更好(如果有同样的时间)。当然不是不可以当做普及读物,但是这样一碗水端平的呈现,没有问题或解读的视角,让人看到的还是一种位于全球化中心的他者,可能最后还是满足了读者的猎奇心理
评分实在是欣赏不来这种提供视角而非问题的民族志。感觉复古到boas时代了→_→
评分全球化、他者、劳工、性别、权力
评分interesting,impressive,and easy to read. it offers a practical method of field study. Chapter 1 and 5 are recommended.
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...
评分知道这本《Ghetto at the Center of the World: Chungking Mansions, Hong Kong》还是在好几个月之前。当时刚刚决定要跨专业申请人类学的硕士,在网路上遇见了一位国内硕士在读(非人类学专业)的姐姐。她说自己也对CUHK的ANT感兴趣,给我推荐了一些书,特别提到Gordon Mathews...
评分书的题目本身就足够抓人眼球了。刚翻开时,总觉得竖行的字有特别的沉淀感和文化意味。但是作者的语言太白话,口语过了头,可能是从英文译过来的原因。不管怎么说,读香港文化的书总是期待书的语言像内容一样既文雅又市井。另外是过于啰嗦,很多话在多个地方反复说;例子也琐碎...
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...
Ghetto at the Center of the World pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2024