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Ghetto at the center of the world : Chungking Mansions, Hong Kong
- Title
- Ghetto at the center of the world : Chungking Mansions, Hong Kong / Gordon Mathews.
- Author
- Mathews, Gordon.
- Publication
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2011.
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Details
- Description
- xi, 241 p. : ill., maps; 23 cm.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Note on Hong Kong -- Place. Introducing Chungking Mansions ; "Ghetto at the center of the world" ; Why Chungking Mansions exists and why it matters ; The building ; History ; Owners' association ; Business ; My own involvement -- People. Traders ; Owners and managers ; Temporary workers ; Asylum seekers ; Domestic helpers ; Sex workers ; Heroin addicts ; Tourists ; How these different groups interact -- Goods. The passage of goods in Chungking Mansions ; Selling goods ; Taking advantage of buyers ; Copy goods ; Manufacturers and middlemen ; Tricks and travails of a phone stall ; Varieties of traders ; The generation gap among traders ; Techniques of traders ; The lure of China ; The perils of customs ; The significance of goods and traders -- Laws. The omnipresent shadow of the law ; Conflicts within and beyond the law ; The role of police ; Visas and residence rights ; Asylum seekers and the law ; "Real" and "fake" asylum seekers ; The lives of asylum seekers ; The changing treatment of asylum seekers ; Future. Changing imaginations of Chungking Mansions ; How Chungking Mansions transforms people ; Cultural identity ; Global significance ; The future of Chungking Mansions / the future of the world.
- Call Number
- JFE 11-3581
- ISBN
- 9780226510194 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 9780226510200 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 0226510190 (cloth. : alk. paper)
- 0226510204 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2010036533
- OCLC
- 663773378
- Author
- Mathews, Gordon.
- Title
- Ghetto at the center of the world : Chungking Mansions, Hong Kong / Gordon Mathews.
- Imprint
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2011.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 11-3581