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La globalización desde abajo/ Globalization from below: La Otra Economía Mundial/ the Other World Economy
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Product Description: La profunda desigualdad que impera en el mundo imposibilita que la mayoría de las personas adquieran los artículos que el mercado global ofrece; la respuesta a este problema no es la contracción del consumo, sino la proliferación de un comercio informal con sus propias reglas, rutas comerciales, centros manufactureros y puestos comerciales; y su propia dinámica: mercancías nuevas a bajo costo, sin cuestionar su procedencia o su precio...read more
By Gordon Mathews
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9786071629616, titled "La globalización desde abajo/ Globalization from below: La Otra Economía Mundial/ the Other World Economy" | Fondo De Cultura Economica USA, July 15, 2015, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: La profunda desigualdad que impera en el mundo imposibilita que la mayoría de las personas adquieran los artículos que el mercado global ofrece; la respuesta a este problema no es la contracción del consumo, sino la proliferación de un comercio informal con sus propias reglas, rutas comerciales, centros manufactureros y puestos comerciales; y su propia dinámica: mercancías nuevas a bajo costo, sin cuestionar su procedencia o su precio.

Ghetto at the Center of the World: Chungking Mansions, Hong Kong
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Product Description: 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 rent rooms...read more
By Gordon Mathews
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9780226510194 | Univ of Chicago Pr, June 30, 2011, cover price $67.00 | About this edition: 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.

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9780226510200 | Univ of Chicago Pr, June 30, 2011, cover price $19.00

Hong Kong, China: Learning to Belong to a Nation
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Product Description:   The idea of ‘national identity’ is an ambiguous one for Hong Kong. Returned to the national embrace of China on 1 July 1997 after 150 years as a British colony, the concept of national identity and what it means to "belong to a nation" is a matter of great tension and contestation in Hong Kong...read more
By Gordon Mathews
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9780415426541 | 1 edition (Routledge, August 29, 2007), cover price $178.00 | About this edition:   The idea of ‘national identity’ is an ambiguous one for Hong Kong.

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9780415480130 | 1 edition (Routledge, November 17, 2008), cover price $54.95 | About this edition:   The idea of ‘national identity’ is an ambiguous one for Hong Kong.

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