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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.
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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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分享提纲： 1.针对某个大楼的个案研究，实在并不多见——开创性意义——从王家卫电影里的重庆大厦到人类学学术研究里的重庆大厦（各自异同）——出色的民族志著作 2.本书研究框架——地点（空间）、人群（田野对象）、商品（经济社会学和经济人类学，重庆大厦赖以生存的核心）...
評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...
評分 評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...
評分分享提纲： 1.针对某个大楼的个案研究，实在并不多见——开创性意义——从王家卫电影里的重庆大厦到人类学学术研究里的重庆大厦（各自异同）——出色的民族志著作 2.本书研究框架——地点（空间）、人群（田野对象）、商品（经济社会学和经济人类学，重庆大厦赖以生存的核心）...
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一個深刻的教訓：對交叉、復雜的民族誌地點的特殊性的呈現不能依靠盡可能全麵、多角度地簡單描摹達成。#否則就會成為一本大而無當毫無重心的non-fiction##排比句真是看的我生氣
评分一個深刻的教訓：對交叉、復雜的民族誌地點的特殊性的呈現不能依靠盡可能全麵、多角度地簡單描摹達成。#否則就會成為一本大而無當毫無重心的non-fiction##排比句真是看的我生氣
评分有幸跟著gordon mathews遊瞭一遍重慶大廈，第一迴摸清楚每層的用途，覺得好像比以前單純瞭一些，當然，僅僅是一些。
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interesting，impressive，and easy to read. it offers a practical method of field study. Chapter 1 and 5 are recommended.
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