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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.
- 人类学
- 香港
- 重庆大厦
- Gordon_Mathews
- 都市人类学
- 文化
- anthropology
- 城市
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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2014年，我参加的某“跨文化管理”课上，听到教授提出的去重庆大厦考察的要求，外地学生感到的多是寻幽探险的兴奋，而一些本地人已经去吃过咖喱了，只有小部分本地学生表现出一点点“呃... ...”的情绪。换言之，在麦高登帮助其摆脱本地舆论污名化（很大程度上是火灾和王家卫...
评分2014年，我参加的某“跨文化管理”课上，听到教授提出的去重庆大厦考察的要求，外地学生感到的多是寻幽探险的兴奋，而一些本地人已经去吃过咖喱了，只有小部分本地学生表现出一点点“呃... ...”的情绪。换言之，在麦高登帮助其摆脱本地舆论污名化（很大程度上是火灾和王家卫...
评分 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...
评分作者在最后指出虽然重庆大厦迟早是要被拆毁的，但重庆大厦这种景象会继续发扬光大，暗示这种低端全球化会遍布全世界。然而，作者没有继续深究下去，为何，这种低端全球化会持续下去。 众多非洲、南亚的各色人等，而不是其余地区的人，来到重庆大厦，其实这和旧有的英帝国息息...
用户评价
这本书的意义更多在于让外界开始了解银幕和传闻以外的这个时代的重庆大厦 是个好的开始
评分interesting，impressive，and easy to read. it offers a practical method of field study. Chapter 1 and 5 are recommended.
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
评分从人类学和社会学的角度看重庆大厦，提出了很有趣的low-end globalization观点，全世界都有ghetto，但只有它是一座大厦。
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