图书标签: 人类学 城市 广州 社会学 社会学/人类学 广州研究 全球化 海外中国研究
发表于2024-12-22
The World in Guangzhou pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2024
Mere decades ago, the population of Guangzhou was almost wholly Chinese. Today, it is a truly global city, a place where people from around the world go to make new lives, find themselves, or further their careers. A large number of those migrants are small-scale traders from Africa who deal in Chinese goods—often knock-offs or copies of high-end branded items—to send back to their home countries. In The World in Guangzhou, Gordon Mathews explores the question of how the city became such a center of "low-end" globalization and shows what we can learn from that experience similar transformations elsewhere in the world.
Through detailed ethnographic portraits, Mathews reveals a world of globalization based on informality, reputation, and trust rather than on formal contracts. How, he asks, can such informal relationships emerge between two groups—Chinese and Sub-Saharan Africans—that don't share a common language, culture, or religion? And what happens when Africans move beyond their status as temporary residents and begin to put down roots and establish families?
Full of unforgettable characters, The World in Guangzhou presents a compelling account of globalization at ground level and offers a look into the future of urban life as transnational connections continue to remake cities around the world.
Gordon Mathews is professor of anthropology at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Linessa Dan Lin is a Ph.D. candidate in the Anthropology Department at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Yang Yang graduated with a master of philosophy in anthropology at The Chinese University of Hong Kong.
重庆大厦续篇,作者还是一如既往地单纯傻呼呼,但采访内容很有趣,作者对未来很乐观,尽管中国种族主义严重,极力阻止外国移民,但他认为中国一定会从ethnic国家变成civic国家,这是大国的必由之路。。。不管中国会怎么样,广州作为全球低端制造业中心确实在衰落,估计会让位给越南或印度的某个城市,广州的外国人又会搬去这些地方,终究只是昙花一现
评分花了大概一个月,终于搞定了这本相对简单的英文著作,很适合第一次读英文书的朋友。麦高登通过详细的民族志材料描写了在广州广园西和小北一带的非洲人,当然有少量笔墨描写其他族群。广州的非洲人主要来自尼日利亚的igbo,他们擅于经商,通过各种渠道将中国的copy或者赝品运送到非洲。作者还是延续了在重庆大厦的概念,提出低端全球化来理解整个过程。此外,还谈及到这些外国人在广州legal和illegal两种不同处境,以及广州警察对他们的态度。除了主要将笔墨放在描述低端全球化的整个链条,对比了不同城市如曼谷,伊斯坦布尔,迪拜等城市与广州之间的联系和差别,在最后麦高登还讨论了跨国婚姻是否能产生中国的奥巴马,涉及了中国的移民政策,他认为现在的广州依旧还是单一族群文化为主导的,但100年后或许能看到更加多元的广州。
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评分重庆大厦续篇,作者还是一如既往地单纯傻呼呼,但采访内容很有趣,作者对未来很乐观,尽管中国种族主义严重,极力阻止外国移民,但他认为中国一定会从ethnic国家变成civic国家,这是大国的必由之路。。。不管中国会怎么样,广州作为全球低端制造业中心确实在衰落,估计会让位给越南或印度的某个城市,广州的外国人又会搬去这些地方,终究只是昙花一现
评分雖然小北三元里廣元西那一帶一不小心就會不知道走到哪裡去了,但是在商鋪和商鋪之間以及小巷與小巷之間看到這些生活在廣州的外國人以及觀察他們的交流還是很有意思的
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The World in Guangzhou pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2024