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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.
interesting,impressive,and easy to read. it offers a practical method of field study. Chapter 1 and 5 are recommended.
评分实在是欣赏不来这种提供视角而非问题的民族志。感觉复古到boas时代了→_→
评分车轱辘话有点多,但内容还是具有启发性。主要是受不了有些时候过于主观过于票友的段落
评分嘉健推荐 | 2012.3.30
评分从人类学和社会学的角度看重庆大厦,提出了很有趣的low-end globalization观点,全世界都有ghetto,但只有它是一座大厦。
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...
评分我没去过香港,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...
评分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...
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