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

by Gordon Mathews

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226510204
• ISBN13: 9780226510200
• Release Date: June 2011
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"