Gordon Mathews

Ghetto at the Center of the World

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Produktbeschreibung

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. This title shows us, a trip to Chungking Mansions that reveals a far less glamorous side of globalization.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: The University of Chicago Press
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juni 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 154mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 384g
• ISBN-13: 9780226510200
• ISBN-10: 0226510204
• Artikelnr.: 32301785

Autorenporträt

Gordon Mathews is professor of anthropology at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He is the author of Global Culture/ Individual Identity: Searching for Home in the Cultural Supermarket and What Makes Life Worth Living? How Japanese and Americans Make Sense of Their Worlds, coauthor of Hong Kong, China: Learning to Belong to a Nation, and coeditor of several books.