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.
发表于2025-03-16
Ghetto at the Center of the World 2025 pdf epub mobi 电子书
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...
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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.
居然让我找到了mobi格式,可以按图索骥~
评分为毛作者车轱辘话来回说?其实这里要是抛开他为了凑字的嫌疑,讲重庆大厦的历史发展未来人群还挺有趣的。但其实少一半就可以说完因为翻来覆去而倒了胃口。
评分居然让我找到了mobi格式,可以按图索骥~
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
Ghetto at the Center of the World 2025 pdf epub mobi 电子书