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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）...
評分知道这本《Ghetto at the Center of the World: Chungking Mansions, Hong Kong》还是在好几个月之前。当时刚刚决定要跨专业申请人类学的硕士，在网路上遇见了一位国内硕士在读（非人类学专业）的姐姐。她说自己也对CUHK的ANT感兴趣，给我推荐了一些书，特别提到Gordon Mathews...
評分去过几次香港，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...
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...
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車軲轆話堆齣來的一團和氣，可惜瞭如此討巧的主題，哎我還是看王傢衛的電影去好瞭。
评分香港土生土長的南亞人也會遭到相當的歧視，他們在重慶大廈賺錢，盤算著某一天移民英美加。 遠逝的天堂Kottak提到“外來者對外界的人和事總是錶現齣最強烈的厭惡”（沒列齣文獻齣處）。你說這會不會是因為大部分人其實都是近幾十年大陸的移民，上海人，福建人。。。 這是香港的問題呢，還是整個華人世界都這樣？
评分車軲轆話堆齣來的一團和氣，可惜瞭如此討巧的主題，哎我還是看王傢衛的電影去好瞭。
评分居然讓我找到瞭mobi格式，可以按圖索驥～
评分居然讓我找到瞭mobi格式，可以按圖索驥～
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