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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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...  

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作为一个努力成为背包客的人,外出旅行时,通常会选择青年旅舍。 在去香港之前,我在BOOKING上搜索了很久。非常多的民宿价格并不贵,一晚在150港币左右,就可以享受到拥有独立的卫生间、电视机、单人床的房间。同样的设施,在一般的酒店至少要800港币左右。 为什么这些民宿如...  

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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 ...  

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去过几次香港,但彼时年少,只是跟着大人逛景点和购物点,对于重庆大厦仅仅略有耳闻却未曾造访。然而,对于重庆大厦的光怪陆离,我在一定程度上能够感同身受。我在书中提到的天秀大厦住了十几年,从懵懂记事到远走高飞。虽身处其中多年,我其实一直是个局外人,从未理解他们的...  

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interesting,impressive,and easy to read. it offers a practical method of field study. Chapter 1 and 5 are recommended.

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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

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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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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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