Ghetto at the Center of the World: Chungking Mansions, Hong Kong

摘要

To say that Chung King Mansions is iconic is possibly an understatement. Delving into it, as this reviewer first did over 30 years ago as a young undergraduate, is still an awesome experience. When attempting to describe it, the word labyrinth always seems to come to mind. For Gordon Mathews it is "a ramshackle building ... that is the hub of 'low-end globalization,'" and the "haunt of South Asian merchants, African entrepreneurs, Indian temporary workers, African and South Asian asylum seekers, and penurious travelers from across the globe" (p. 1).