Ghetto at the Center of the World: Chungking Mansions, Hong Kong (Paperback)
 
作者: Gordon Mathews 
書城編號: 227588

原價: HK$170.00
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出版社: 香港大學出版社Hong Kong University Press
出版日期: 2011/08/01
頁數: 256
尺寸: 6x9 inches
ISBN: 9789888083367

商品簡介
“In this wonderful book Gordon Mathews takes on an intriguing project: daily life as it is lived, articulated, dreamed, denied, re­gretted, and defended in a rather rundown but very public building in Hong Kong. The residents of Chungking Mansions are eco­nomically blocked from the rest of the city and often racially discriminated against, so how do such marginalized people survive, much less prosper? This is the conundrum at the heart of Ghetto at the Center of the World. Mathews tackles it by providing a vivid description of the people who live their lives in the building’s dimly lit hall­ways, restaurants, and shops, and by analyzing the larger ma­terial and political forces at work. The resulting account is as informative and revealing as it is entertaining.” — William Jankowiak, author of Sex, Death, and Hierarchy in a Chinese City “Chungking Mansions is a microcosm of glo­balization but with a special twist: it shel­ters and nurtures the small-time players who inhabit the lower tiers of transnational capitalism. Postcolonial Hong Kong remains a platform for suitcase entrepreneurs who travel the world in pursuit of profit and business connec­tions. The Mansions may seem seedy and dangerous to the titans who run Hong Kong, but, as Mathews’ account makes clear, it is a paradise for business travelers on a minimal budget. Anyone who seeks insights into the soft underbelly of global capitalism should read this book.” — James l. Watson, coauthor of Village Life in Hong Kong

Description:
Chungking Mansions, a dilapidated seventeen-story commercial and residential structure in the heart of Hong Kong’s tourist district, is home to a remarkably motley group of people. Traders, laborers, and asylum seekers from all over Asia and Africa live and work there, and even backpacking tourists rent rooms in what is possibly the most globalized spot on the planet. But as Ghetto at the Center of the World shows us, the Mansions is a world away from the gleaming headquarters of multinational corporations—instead it epitomizes the way globalization actually works for most of the world’s people. Through candid stories that both instruct and enthrall, Gordon Mathews lays bare the building’s residents’ intricate connections to the international circulation of goods, money, and ideas.

Author:
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.

Gordon Mathews 作者作品表

Life After Death Today in the United States, Japan, and China (Paperback)

Life After Death Today in the United States, Japan, and China (Hardcover)

World in Guangzhou (Paperback)

THE WORLD IN GUANGZHOU

世界中心的貧民窟:香港重慶大廈

Globalization from Below: The World's Other Economy

Ghetto at the Center of the World: Chungking Mansions, Hong Kong (Paperback)

Pursuits of Happiness (Paperback)

eBook: Global Culture/Individual Identity: Searching for Home in the Cultural Supermarket (DRM EPUB)

eBook: Global Culture/Individual Identity: Searching for Home in the Cultural Supermarket (DRM PDF)

eBook: Global Culture/Individual Identity: Searching for Home in the Cultural Supermarket (DRM PDF)

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