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Ghetto at the center of the world : Chungking Mansions, Hong Kong / Gordon Mathews
Bib ID 5497802
Format BookBook
Author
Mathews, Gordon
 
Description Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2011 
xi, 241 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm. 
ISBN 9780226510194
9780226510200
0226510190
0226510204
Full 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.
 
Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Subjects Chonqing da sha (Hong Kong, China)  |  Multipurpose buildings -- China -- Hong Kong.  |  Guesthouses -- China -- Hong Kong.  |  City dwellers -- China -- Hong Kong.  |  Minorities -- China -- Hong Kong.  |  Hong Kong (China) -- Commerce.

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