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2024-11-22
Ghetto at the Center of the World 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书
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...
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...
评分二十二岁之前对重庆大厦的印象全部来自于墨镜王的《重庆森林》,那种漂游的都市爱情,作为背景的重庆大厦也不过是拿来聊天的话头。 真的去到香港,站在重庆大厦门口也只是拍照留念,进去是不敢的,门口操着一口流利粤语的南亚小哥和你兜售手机就让人立马警觉,这一切和身处其中...
评分一月底从香港诚品书店买回这本书 断断续续看到最近才终于看完 第一次看完一本竖行繁体的书 而且还非常厚 确实是有点辛苦的 因为不太习惯所以常常这一行看完了找不准哪是下一行 但是好在这是一本有趣的书 尽管是一位人类学教授经过几年的调查与记录写出的一本学术著作 ...
评分关于重庆大厦,麦老头(作者)说:现在的重庆大厦已经不再是曾经那个危险,毒品,强奸,非法移民,假货,嫖娼等社会阴暗面的缩影,5年前开始它就已经随着时代改变了面貌。至于变成什么样子,我还是建议你自己进去逛一逛。 另外,二楼穆斯林餐厅里的【埃及pizza】最好吃!一年来...
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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.
总的来说,感觉像一篇巨型的专栏文章,理论意涵弱得很,不知道问什么中英文版的评分都那么高。全书分“地人物法”四个部分,很malinowskian,虽然表面上恰恰在强调重庆大厦的全球/多点联系。另一方面,文笔很好,对neoliberalism的温和同情也算是对几乎已经演变成hegemonic discourse的左翼叙事的反抗。
评分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。
评分总的来说,感觉像一篇巨型的专栏文章,理论意涵弱得很,不知道问什么中英文版的评分都那么高。全书分“地人物法”四个部分,很malinowskian,虽然表面上恰恰在强调重庆大厦的全球/多点联系。另一方面,文笔很好,对neoliberalism的温和同情也算是对几乎已经演变成hegemonic discourse的左翼叙事的反抗。
评分真希望八十年代时能去看看。这个群体很容易被大众、媒体污名化,而他们却无从为自己辩解。而即使是大部分在异国他乡打拼的他们,似乎也要比被赶出帝都的北漂们幸运得多。
Ghetto at the Center of the World 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书