出版社: University Of Chicago Press
副标题: Chungking Mansions, Hong Kong
出版年: 2011-6-30
页数: 256
定价: USD 19.00
装帧: Paperback
ISBN: 9780226510200
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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 ...
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.
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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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《重庆大厦》消除了我对重庆大厦的害怕。
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借重庆大厦重识天秀大厦
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0 有用 程不成 2014-02-27 23:19:44
香港土生土长的南亚人也会遭到相当的歧视,他们在重庆大厦赚钱,盘算着某一天移民英美加。 远逝的天堂Kottak提到“外来者对外界的人和事总是表现出最强烈的厌恶”(没列出文献出处)。你说这会不会是因为大部分人其实都是近几十年大陆的移民,上海人,福建人。。。 这是香港的问题呢,还是整个华人世界都这样?
0 有用 慢手 2015-01-10 13:42:30
全球化、他者、劳工、性别、权力
0 有用 Ms.S 2012-04-19 01:16:51
Very balanced analysis on HK'S landmark mansion, with multi-national perspective, along with a complete review of HK colonial history and migration evolution.
5 有用 去你爹的 2018-09-10 17:35:22
一个深刻的教训:对交叉、复杂的民族志地点的特殊性的呈现不能依靠尽可能全面、多角度地简单描摹达成。#否则就会成为一本大而无当毫无重心的non-fiction##排比句真是看的我生气#
0 有用 戚韶 2015-02-26 14:05:33
一本关于重庆大厦的民族志,虽然很大程度上只是现象的呈现,没有过多地触及深层原因,但还是应该感念在重庆大厦注定走入没落的时代里,有人记录了这个世界中心的贫民窟的故事。
0 有用 圆歪歪 2024-04-22 13:02:44 北京
一本好的纪实文学会让你感觉看了一部影集,或者一部Frederick Wiseman的纪录片;像一幅透视镜一样,穿过重庆大厦破旧的外墙,看到大家来到这里的理由,还有这里折射出的这座城市内在的personality
0 有用 漂入宇宙漫游 2023-11-09 01:12:30 瑞典
也太水了叭,冗于罗列与重复,合理怀疑作者凑字数!
0 有用 AROGUE- 2023-06-04 17:38:36 上海
书的内容太过重复啰嗦,兜兜转转总算是描绘了一幅不深刻的众生相。十几年过去,重庆大厦似乎还是原封不动的样子,从未踏足过大厦里的人们依旧谈虎色变,而弥敦道上的入口处也依旧有各色种族来来往往。重庆大厦会变成世界的未来吗?在这个反全球化浪潮渐渐抬头的现在,很难说它会继续做世界中心的一块空白,还是就此永远消失不见。
0 有用 Mantsuki 2022-08-26 16:59:19 浙江
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0 有用 🐙\_(ツ)_/¯🦖 2022-05-17 18:30:42
3.5。满足了我下我的好奇。还是有点后悔没有进去溜达一圈。只是白天MTR出来经过,门口南亚人看到我是背包客,塞我住宿小卡片,耳闻过些它的风评,预先就没订住宿在那里。唉,又要感叹如果在外可以变。生理性别男就好了,安全系数提高,好奇心和探险探索及文化交流更少受限。作者带的女学生在重庆大厦里和南亚男性交流时也有遇到这个壁垒