图书标签: 人类学 香港 重庆大厦 Gordon_Mathews 都市人类学 文化 anthropology 城市
发表于2025-01-31
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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.
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.
居然让我找到了mobi格式,可以按图索骥~
评分车轱辘话堆出来的一团和气,可惜了如此讨巧的主题,哎我还是看王家卫的电影去好了。
评分有幸跟着gordon mathews游了一遍重庆大厦,第一回摸清楚每层的用途,觉得好像比以前单纯了一些,当然,仅仅是一些。
评分总的来说,感觉像一篇巨型的专栏文章,理论意涵弱得很,不知道问什么中英文版的评分都那么高。全书分“地人物法”四个部分,很malinowskian,虽然表面上恰恰在强调重庆大厦的全球/多点联系。另一方面,文笔很好,对neoliberalism的温和同情也算是对几乎已经演变成hegemonic discourse的左翼叙事的反抗。
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
2014年,我参加的某“跨文化管理”课上,听到教授提出的去重庆大厦考察的要求,外地学生感到的多是寻幽探险的兴奋,而一些本地人已经去吃过咖喱了,只有小部分本地学生表现出一点点“呃... ...”的情绪。换言之,在麦高登帮助其摆脱本地舆论污名化(很大程度上是火灾和王家卫...
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)...
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...
Ghetto at the Center of the World pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2025