c**i
发帖数: 6973 | 1 (1) Paul Carl Lukacs, Commerce in the Rough; The 17-story Chungking Mansions
in Hong Kong is a hive of small-bore arbitrage and 'Nokla' phone sales.
Wall Street Journal, June 29, 2011
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405
2748703858404576214503815102440.html
(book review on Gordon Mathews, Ghetto at the Center of the World: Chungking
Mansion, Hong Kong. University of Chicago Press, 2011)
Note:
(a) This is publisher's page for the book.
(b) Chungking Mansion 重慶大厦
http://www.chungking-mansions.hk/
(i) Click "Map" in the left column, and you will see the mansion is situated
at Tsim Sha Tsui 尖沙咀
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsim_Sha_Tsui
at southern Koloon, facing Hong Kong island across Victoria Harbor.
(ii)You can click, say, "A Block" in the left column and, inthe new wweb
page, click any hotel to take a look at a room and price range.
* outer appearance of the mansion:
http://photos.igougo.com
/pictures-photos-p377370-Chungking_Mansion.html
(c) flophouse (n): "a cheap rooming house or hotel"
(d) The "work-a-day" in "work-a-day commerce."
workaday (adj):
"1: of, relating to, or suited for working days
2: ORDINARY, PROSAIC "
(e) caravansary (n; Persian kārvānsarāī, from kārvān caravan + sarāī
palace, inn):
"1: an inn surrounding a court in eastern countries where caravans rest at
night
2: HOTEL, INN"
All definitions are from www.m-w.com.
(f) mordant (adj; Middle French, present participle of mordre to bite, from
Latin mordēre):
"biting and caustic in thought, manner, or style : INCISIVE "
(g) Tianxiu Building in Guangzhou 天秀大厦
(2) Ali Soufan, Fifth Degree, second Thoughts. Wall Street Journal, June 28,
2011
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405
2702304070104576399891674711266.html
(book review on Glenn L Carle, The interrogator: An Education. Nation Books,
2011)
Quote: "In "The Interrogator: An Education," Glenn Carle, a 23-year CIA
veteran who retired in 2007, confirms what I knew from my own experience as
an FBI agent at the Guantanamo Bay facility in Cuba and at so-called black
sites: It would be a struggle to find a CIA operative who endorses the use
of enhanced-interrogation techniques. The agency's supporters of such
measures were predominately political appointees and desk officials, not
professional field operatives. Anyone with actual interrogation experience
knows that rapport-building techniques, which use knowledge to outwit
detainees and gain cooperation, produce better intelligence than enhanced
interrogation. | c**i
发帖数: 6973 | 2 I forgot to provide the URL for (1), which is
http://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp
/books/book/chicago/G/bo11234886.html
That web page is not informative. But you might wonder what was going on.
I also corrected the original posting by adding the URL there.
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【在 c**i 的大作中提到】
: (1) Paul Carl Lukacs, Commerce in the Rough; The 17-story Chungking Mansions
: in Hong Kong is a hive of small-bore arbitrage and 'Nokla' phone sales.
: Wall Street Journal, June 29, 2011
: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405
: 2748703858404576214503815102440.html
: (book review on Gordon Mathews, Ghetto at the Center of the World: Chungking
: Mansion, Hong Kong. University of Chicago Press, 2011)
: Note:
: (a) This is publisher's page for the book.
: (b) Chungking Mansion 重慶大厦
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