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2025-02-25
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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...
评分书的题目本身就足够抓人眼球了。刚翻开时,总觉得竖行的字有特别的沉淀感和文化意味。但是作者的语言太白话,口语过了头,可能是从英文译过来的原因。不管怎么说,读香港文化的书总是期待书的语言像内容一样既文雅又市井。另外是过于啰嗦,很多话在多个地方反复说;例子也琐碎...
评分分享提纲: 1.针对某个大楼的个案研究,实在并不多见——开创性意义——从王家卫电影里的重庆大厦到人类学学术研究里的重庆大厦(各自异同)——出色的民族志著作 2.本书研究框架——地点(空间)、人群(田野对象)、商品(经济社会学和经济人类学,重庆大厦赖以生存的核心)...
评分在讨论全球化造成的飞地的时候,容易关注两极而非中段。的确,全球化议题中更能引发人们讨论兴味的总是高精尖技术的共享,或关怀维度爆表的底层贫民窟。 不大记得是《落脚城市》还是哪一本相关书籍里都有说到,极端底层的贫民窟现象已然成为第三世界国家的一种重要...
评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...
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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.
应该是读完的第一本人类学专著……重庆大厦之于香港应该是一个他者,但也许也只有香港这片神奇的土地上才能有重庆大厦这样神奇的存在,一个全球化浪潮之中小小的暗流……讲大厦里各色人等的文化认同那段真是感人至深,他们是来自第三世界的中产者,在有着更多中产者挣扎生存的发达城市里挣扎生存——于是我的感想是千万不能留下来。
评分有幸跟着gordon mathews游了一遍重庆大厦,第一回摸清楚每层的用途,觉得好像比以前单纯了一些,当然,仅仅是一些。
评分全球化、他者、劳工、性别、权力
评分一个深刻的教训: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
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
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