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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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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...
评分重庆大厦的出名：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 评分在“重庆大厦为何存在以及为何值得关注“中和商业篇里，作者描述到重庆大厦在这场低端全球化中的区位，联想到毕设期间的工作，总觉得和香港这座口岸城市有异曲同工之处： 1.地区差异产生流动的动力。有意思的是，这里的差异主要是中国内地与第三世界国家商品价格和生产水平的差...
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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
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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