Ghetto at the Center of the World Quotes

“This, then, is the global significance of Chungking Mansions. It is a building of the periphery within a city of the core, a city located between the developing world’s manufacturing hub and its poorest nether regions. It is a ghetto of middle-class striving within a city of wealthier middle-class striving, viewing its denizens with fear and scorn yet letting business as usual be the law of the day. Chungking”
― Gordon Mathews, Ghetto at the Center of the World: Chungking Mansions, Hong Kong