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• Ghetto at the Center of the World: Chungking Mansions, Hong Kong
• Gordon Mathews
• Page: 256
• Format: pdf, ePub, fb2, mobi
• ISBN: 9780226510200
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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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.

Ghetto at the Center of the World: Chungking Mansions, Hong Kong
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The building, though flanked by some of Hong Kong's most glamorous past the crumbling facade of Chungking Mansions in Kowloon district. Hong Kong residents, in his recent book, Ghetto at the Center of the World. Chungking Mansions worth a visit or stay clear? - Hong Kong Forum
For an in-depth account of life at Chungking Mansions I can recommend Gordon Mathews excellent book "Ghetto at the Center of the World". Ghetto at the Center of the World: Chungking Mansions, Hong Kong
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Ghetto at the Center of the World: Chungking Mansions, Hong Kong, by Gordon Mathews (University of Chicago), 241 + xi pp. Review by P. D. Ghetto at the Center of the World: Chungking Mansions, Hong Kong
HKD160.00 / USD18.00 10% off for web orders. With 32 b/w illus. Paperback 256 Pages. Publication Date 2011/08. ISBN 9789888083367. 229x152 mm 0.380 Upwardly Mobile | The Caravan - A Journal of Politics and Culture
Inside Hong Kong's Chungking Mansions. By HOWARD W FRENCH | 1 January 2013. HOWARD W FRENCH. The entrance to Chungking Mansions at 4 am.

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