Chungking Mansions – The Ghetto at the Center of the World
Posted: August 25th, 2011 | No Comments »An interesting new book for those who have known Hong Kong’s infamous Chungking Mansions over the year: Gordon Mathews – Ghetto at the Center of the World: Chungking Mansions (shame Hong Kong University has decided to adopt American spelling). Anyway here are the details as per usual.
-Â Offers an ethnographic portrait of Chungking Mansions and the people within it from African traders to Pakistani and Indian proprietors to Chinese owners to asylum seekers, heroin addicts, sex workers, and tourists.
– Lays bare the building’s residents’ intricate connections to the international circulation of goods, money, and ideas.
- Shows how the building is an epitome of the way globalization actually works for most of the world’s people.
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