Ghetto at the Center of the World pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載2025
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.
- 人類學
- 香港
- 重慶大廈
- Gordon_Mathews
- 都市人類學
- 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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讀後感
二十二岁之前对重庆大厦的印象全部来自于墨镜王的《重庆森林》，那种漂游的都市爱情，作为背景的重庆大厦也不过是拿来聊天的话头。 真的去到香港，站在重庆大厦门口也只是拍照留念，进去是不敢的，门口操着一口流利粤语的南亚小哥和你兜售手机就让人立马警觉，这一切和身处其中...
評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...
評分我没去过香港，就更别提位于九龙尖沙咀的重庆大厦了。所以，我把王家卫的《重庆森林》找来看了一遍。《重庆森林》由两个片段组成，金城武和林青霞演一对素不相识的警察和毒贩，王菲和梁朝伟演一对在暗恋中水到渠成的打工女和巡警，我没看明白的第一段故事发生在重庆大厦里...
評分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...
評分一直很想读这本书，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...
用戶評價
應該是讀完的第一本人類學專著……重慶大廈之於香港應該是一個他者，但也許也隻有香港這片神奇的土地上纔能有重慶大廈這樣神奇的存在，一個全球化浪潮之中小小的暗流……講大廈裏各色人等的文化認同那段真是感人至深，他們是來自第三世界的中産者，在有著更多中産者掙紮生存的發達城市裏掙紮生存——於是我的感想是韆萬不能留下來。
评分真希望八十年代時能去看看。這個群體很容易被大眾、媒體汙名化，而他們卻無從為自己辯解。而即使是大部分在異國他鄉打拼的他們，似乎也要比被趕齣帝都的北漂們幸運得多。
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
评分全球化、他者、勞工、性彆、權力
评分實在是欣賞不來這種提供視角而非問題的民族誌。感覺復古到boas時代瞭→_→
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