Ghetto at the Center of the World

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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.

出版者:University Of Chicago Press
作者:Gordon Mathews
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页数:256
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出版时间:2011-6-30
价格:USD 19.00
装帧:Paperback
isbn号码:9780226510200
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  • 人类学 
  • 香港 
  • 重庆大厦 
  • Gordon_Mathews 
  • 都市人类学 
  • 文化 
  • anthropology 
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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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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...  

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关于重庆大厦,麦老头(作者)说:现在的重庆大厦已经不再是曾经那个危险,毒品,强奸,非法移民,假货,嫖娼等社会阴暗面的缩影,5年前开始它就已经随着时代改变了面貌。至于变成什么样子,我还是建议你自己进去逛一逛。 另外,二楼穆斯林餐厅里的【埃及pizza】最好吃!一年来...  

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做完思维导图后突然不想细写一篇长文了……那就给思维导图写个总结吧。 麦高登给重庆大厦的比喻很巧妙,“世界中心的边缘地带”,确实如此。不仅是地理位置上的“位于繁华尖沙咀中的一座破旧大楼”,更是贫富意义上的“降落在第一世界中心的突兀的第三世界”。来自边陲国家的中...  

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low-end globalization, neoliberalism, the clash of civilization, asylum seekers, hong kong, law

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香港土生土长的南亚人也会遭到相当的歧视,他们在重庆大厦赚钱,盘算着某一天移民英美加。 远逝的天堂Kottak提到“外来者对外界的人和事总是表现出最强烈的厌恶”(没列出文献出处)。你说这会不会是因为大部分人其实都是近几十年大陆的移民,上海人,福建人。。。 这是香港的问题呢,还是整个华人世界都这样?

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车轱辘话有点多,但内容还是具有启发性。主要是受不了有些时候过于主观过于票友的段落

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eye opening

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一个深刻的教训:对交叉、复杂的民族志地点的特殊性的呈现不能依靠尽可能全面、多角度地简单描摹达成。#否则就会成为一本大而无当毫无重心的non-fiction##排比句真是看的我生气

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