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- 人类学
- 香港
- 重庆大厦
- Gordon_Mathews
- 都市人类学
- 文化
- anthropology
- 城市
- 犹太人历史
- 大萧条
- 纽约
- 移民
- 社会变迁
- 种族隔离
- 城市生活
- 20世纪历史
- 美国历史
- 文化认同
具体描述
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.
作者简介
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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作为一个努力成为背包客的人，外出旅行时，通常会选择青年旅舍。 在去香港之前，我在BOOKING上搜索了很久。非常多的民宿价格并不贵，一晚在150港币左右，就可以享受到拥有独立的卫生间、电视机、单人床的房间。同样的设施，在一般的酒店至少要800港币左右。 为什么这些民宿如...
评分知道这本《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...
评分矗立在尖沙咀的重庆大厦，曾被美国《时代》杂志选为“全球化最佳例子”，其收容的住客来自百多个不同的国家。人类学教授Gordon Mathews因为到重庆大厦做义工，阴差阳错地研究起了这座大厦和这座大厦里的人。据他自己所言，白人身份可能还便利了他的研究，因为华人很可能第一时...
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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真希望八十年代时能去看看。这个群体很容易被大众、媒体污名化，而他们却无从为自己辩解。而即使是大部分在异国他乡打拼的他们，似乎也要比被赶出帝都的北漂们幸运得多。
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.
评分一开始读很兴奋，然而读完觉得确实还是太复古了，这样的民族志，一个记者或者作家也可以做到，甚至做得更好（如果有同样的时间）。当然不是不可以当做普及读物，但是这样一碗水端平的呈现，没有问题或解读的视角，让人看到的还是一种位于全球化中心的他者，可能最后还是满足了读者的猎奇心理
评分真希望八十年代时能去看看。这个群体很容易被大众、媒体污名化，而他们却无从为自己辩解。而即使是大部分在异国他乡打拼的他们，似乎也要比被赶出帝都的北漂们幸运得多。
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.
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