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发表于2024-12-23
Ghetto at the Center of the World pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2024
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.
車軲轆話有點多,但內容還是具有啓發性。主要是受不瞭有些時候過於主觀過於票友的段落
評分車軲轆話堆齣來的一團和氣,可惜瞭如此討巧的主題,哎我還是看王傢衛的電影去好瞭。
評分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。
評分居然讓我找到瞭mobi格式,可以按圖索驥~
評分實在是欣賞不來這種提供視角而非問題的民族誌。感覺復古到boas時代瞭→_→
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Ghetto at the Center of the World pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2024