Ghetto at the Center of the World : Chungking Mansions, Hong Kong Stephen Bayley In summary

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Ghetto at the Center of the World : Chungking Mansions, Hong Kong Stephen Bayley In summaryThere 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