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- 人類學
- 香港
- 重慶大廈
- Gordon_Mathews
- 都市人類學
- 文化
- anthropology
- 城市
- 猶太人曆史
- 大蕭條
- 紐約
- 移民
- 社會變遷
- 種族隔離
- 城市生活
- 20世紀曆史
- 美國曆史
- 文化認同
具體描述
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.
著者簡介
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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重庆大厦的出名：20C 70‘s被写进《孤独星球》，成为西方嬉皮士和背包客的逗留地。 基础数据：17层高，每晚4000人留宿，129个国家 撒哈拉以南地区20%的手机都是从重庆大厦发货过去的 P2：香港在70年代是工业生产的中心，在80年代末成为中国货品集散地。同一时期，异于内地的香...
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...
評分一直很想读这本书，一边听着宅男帮忙升级好电脑后的欢乐的歌声，一边在其虹口小仓里火眼晶晶发现了这本书，周日在家一口气读完了。这本书介绍的重庆大厦是一座残旧的大楼，商住两用，拥有大批南亚及非洲的住户，有来来往往的商人，有兢兢业业的非法劳工，有慵懒的避难者...
評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...
用戶評價
真希望八十年代時能去看看。這個群體很容易被大眾、媒體汙名化，而他們卻無從為自己辯解。而即使是大部分在異國他鄉打拼的他們，似乎也要比被趕齣帝都的北漂們幸運得多。
评分從人類學和社會學的角度看重慶大廈，提齣瞭很有趣的low-end globalization觀點，全世界都有ghetto，但隻有它是一座大廈。
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low-end globalization, neoliberalism, the clash of civilization, asylum seekers, hong kong, law
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