Chungking Mansions

Author : Gordon Mathews
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226510204
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ghetto at the Center of the World written by Gordon Mathews and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2011-06-30 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 4e de couv.: Chungking Mansions, a dilapidated seventeen-story commercial and residential structure in the heart of Hong Kong's tourist district, is home to a remarkably motley group of people. Traders, laborers, and asylum seekers from all over Asia and Africa live and work there, and even backpacking tourists rent rooms in what is possibly the most globalized spot on the planet. But as Ghetto at the center of the world shows us, the Mansions is a world away from the gleaming headquarters of multinational corporations -instead it epitomizes the way globalization actually works for most of the world's people. Through candid stories that both instruct and enthrall, Gordon Mathews lays bare the building's residents' intricate connections to the international circulation of goods, money, and ideas.

Author : Gordon Mathews
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226510212
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ghetto at the Center of the World written by Gordon Mathews and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2011-06-01 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Gordon Mathews
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789888083367
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ghetto at the Center of the World written by Gordon Mathews and published by . This book was released on 2011-08-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is nowhere else in the world quite like Chungking Mansions, a dilapidated 17-storey commercial and residential structure in the heart of Hong Kong's tourist district. This book provides an intimate portrayal of the building's polyethnic residents.

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Publisher : Blacksmith Books
ISBN 13 : 9789887792826
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chungking Mansions written by and published by Blacksmith Books. This book was released on 2019-03-07 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Squatting incongruously amid the luxury hotels of Kowloon, Chungking Mansions is home to pimps, hookers, thieves and drug pushers. More than 200 guesthouses, and shops selling counterfeit goods, establish this unique place as a global hub of trade and multiculturalism. Its five 17-storey towers also offer the city's last low-rent refuge for asylum seekers. In 2009, photographer Nana Chen began wandering its corridors. She sought to craft a portrait of Hong Kong's last ghetto before its vibrant character is erased forever.

Author : Stefan Al
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
ISBN 13 : 9888208969
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mall City written by Stefan Al and published by Hong Kong University Press. This book was released on 2016-07-01 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hong Kong is the twenty-first-century paradigmatic capital of consumerism. Of all places, it has the densest and tallest concentration of malls, reaching tens of stories. Hong Kong’s malls are also the most visited, sandwiched between subways and skyscrapers. These mall complexes have become cities in and of themselves, accommodating tens of thousands of people who live, work, and play within a single structure. Mall City features Hong Kong as a unique rendering of an advanced consumer society. Retail space has come a long way since the nineteenth-century covered passages of Paris, which once awed the bourgeoisie with glass roofs and gaslights. It has morphed from the arcade to the department store, and from the mall into the “mall city”—where “expresscalators” crisscross mesmerizing atriums. Highlighting the effects of this development in Hong Kong, this book raises questions about architecture, city planning, culture, and urban life. “At the nexus of density, humidity, topography, and prosperity, Hong Kong has spawned more malls per square mile than any place on earth. This fantastic book decodes and graphically depicts an environment both apart and ubiquitous, a convulsive form of public space in a liquid territory where intensely contested politics, commerce, and sociability weirdly merge in a city like no other.” —Michael Sorkin, distinguished professor of architecture of the City University of New York “Hong Kong may be packed with the most shopping malls per square kilometer in the world, but Mall City is packed with the most drawings, information, and fascinating mall facts. The book dissects, categorizes, and displays all kinds of intriguing data on the city-state’s shopping complexes and culture. Its richly layered analysis perfectly matches Hong Kong’s multi-story machines for consumption.” —Clifford Pearson, director of USC American Academy in China “Stefan Al has again produced a book that provides a sharp lens on radically new urban forms that are emerging in China. While his previous books, Villages in the City andFactory Towns of South China introduced the site of production and housing for the migrant labor of the Pearl River Delta, here we enter the phantasmagoria of the enormous interconnected free-trade shopping zone of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. Mall City dissects the basic unit of this climate-controlled consumer landscape—the mall. This beautifully illustrated book is a must-read for those who wish to understand the future of public space in high-density cities.” —Brian McGrath, professor of urban design and dean of constructed environments, Parsons School of Design

Author : Jasper Fforde
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0593296540
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Constant Rabbit written by Jasper Fforde and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-09-28 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Reads like a crazed cross between Watership Down and Nineteen Eighty-Four." --The Guardian "Every book of Fforde's seems to be a cause for celebration." -- Charles Yu, The New York Times Book Review on Early Riser A new stand-alone novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Early Riser and the Thursday Next series England, 2022. There are 1.2 million human-size rabbits living in the UK. They can walk, talk, drive cars, and they like to read Voltaire, the result of an Inexplicable Anthropomorphizing Event fifty-five years before. A family of rabbits is about to move into Much Hemlock, a cozy little village in Middle England where life revolves around summer fetes, jam making, gossipy corner stores, and the oh-so-important Best Kept Village awards. No sooner have the rabbits arrived than the villagers decide they must depart, citing their propensity to burrow and breed, and their shameless levels of veganism. But Mrs Constance Rabbit is made of sterner stuff, and her and her family decide they are to stay. Unusually, their neighbors--longtime resident Peter Knox and his daughter, Pippa--decide to stand with them . . . . and soon discover that you can be a friend to rabbits or humans, but not both. With a blossoming romance, acute cultural differences, enforced rehoming to a MegaWarren in Wales, and the full power of the ruling United Kingdom Anti-Rabbit Party against them, Peter and Pippa are about to question everything they had ever thought about their friends, their nation, and their species. An inimitable blend of satire, fantasy, and thriller, The Constant Rabbit is the latest dazzlingly original foray into Jasper Fforde's ever-astonishing creative genius.

Author : Gordon Mathews
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0415535085
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Globalization from Below written by Gordon Mathews and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book deals ethnographically with economic globalization from below in its broadest sense, from producers to traders to vendors to consumers across the globe.

Author : Caroline Knowles
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226448584
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hong Kong written by Caroline Knowles and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2009-12-15 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1997 the United Kingdom returned control of Hong Kong to China, ending the city’s status as one of the last remnants of the British Empire and initiating a new phase for it as both a modern city and a hub for global migrations. Hong Kong is a tour of the city’s postcolonial urban landscape, innovatively told through fieldwork and photography. Caroline Knowles and Douglas Harper’s point of entry into Hong Kong is the unusual position of the British expatriates who chose to remain in the city after the transition. Now a relatively insignificant presence, British migrants in Hong Kong have become intimately connected with another small minority group there: immigrants from Southeast Asia. The lives, journeys, and stories of these two groups bring to life a place where the past continues to resonate for all its residents, even as the city hurtles forward into a future marked by transience and transition. By skillfully blending ethnographic and visual approaches, Hong Kong offers a fascinating guide to a city that is at once unique in its recent history and exemplary of our globalized present.

Author : Stefan Al
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 0824855442
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mall City written by Stefan Al and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2016-11-30 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hong Kong is the twenty-first-century paradigmatic capital of consumerism. Of all places, it has the densest and tallest concentration of malls, reaching tens of stories. Hong Kong’s malls are also the most visited, sandwiched between subways and skyscrapers. These mall complexes have become cities in and of themselves, accommodating tens of thousands of people who live, work, and play within a single structure. Mall City features Hong Kong as a unique rendering of an advanced consumer society. Retail space has come a long way since the nineteenth-century covered passages of Paris, which once awed the bourgeoisie with glass roofs and gaslights. It has morphed from the arcade to the department store, and from the mall into the “mall city”—where “expresscalators” crisscross mesmerizing atriums. Highlighting the effects of this development in Hong Kong, this book raises questions about architecture, city planning, culture, and urban life.

Author : Steven K. Bailey
Publisher : ThingsAsian Press
ISBN 13 : 9781934159163
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Exploring Hong Kong written by Steven K. Bailey and published by ThingsAsian Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring Hong Kong presents a vivid and multidimensional portrait of Hong Kong, one of Asia's most exciting cities. Inspired by his 20-year love affair with Hong Kong, Steven K. Bailey has transformed the typical Hong Kong guidebook by dispensing with the usual laundry lists of sights, hotels, and restaurants. In their place are thoughtfully written chapters that offer the author's personal perspective on how to best explore Hong Kong. From dolphin watches and back-country hikes to street markets, temples, and ferry rides, Exploring Hong Kong contains 40 richly detailed experiences that will unite travelers with the soul of one of the most dynamic cities in Asia. Book jacket.