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Acknowledgments | p. ix |
Prelude: A Note on Hong Kong | p. 1 |
Place: Introducing Chungking Mansions | p. 7 |
ôGhetto at the Center of the Worldö | p. 13 |
Why Chungking Mansions Exists and Why It Matters | p. 16 |
The Building | p. 21 |
History | p. 33 |
Owners' Association | p. 38 |
Business | p. 41 |
My Own Involvement | p. 50 |
People: Traders | p. 57 |
Owners and Managers | p. 66 |
Temporary Workers | p. 74 |
Asylum Seekers | p. 78 |
Domestic Helpers | p. 83 |
Sex Workers | p. 85 |
Heroin Addicts | p. 87 |
Tourists | p. 90 |
How These Different Groups Interact | p. 94 |
Goods: The Passage of Goods in Chungking Mansions | p. 105 |
Selling Goods | p. 108 |
Taking Advantage of Buyers | p. 112 |
Copy Goods | p. 114 |
Manufacturers and Middlemen | p. 118 |
Tricks and Travails of a Phone Stall | p. 120 |
Varieties of Traders | p. 123 |
The Generation Gap among Traders | p. 128 |
Techniques of Traders | p. 131 |
The Lure of China | p. 135 |
The Perils of Customs | p. 137 |
The Significance of Goods and Traders | p. 147 |
Laws: The Omnipresent Shadow of the Law | p. 151 |
Conflicts Within and Beyond the Law | p. 153 |
The Role of Police | p. 157 |
Visas and Residence Rights | p. 165 |
Asylum Seekers and the Law | p. 169 |
ôRealö and ôFakeö Asylum Seekers | p. 173 |
The Lives of Asylum Seekers | p. 178 |
The Changing Treatment of Asylum Seekers | p. 190 |
Future: Changing Imaginations of Chungking Mansions | p. 195 |
How Chungking Mansions Transforms People | p. 198 |
Cultural Identity | p. 202 |
Global Significance | p. 207 |
The Future of Chungking Mansions/The Future of the World | p. 215 |
Notes | p. 219 |
References | p. 225 |
Index | p. 231 |
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