I am at Chungking Mansions, a high-rise warren in Tsim Sha Tsui known to contain the cheapest guest houses in Hong Kong, and immortalized as a den of lawlessness in Kar Wai Wong's 1994 movie "Chungking Express." With me is Gordon Mathews, a professor of anthropology at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and the author of the recently published book, "Ghetto at the Center of the World: Chungking Mansions, Hong Kong."
I find myself standing in the alley behind Chungking Mansions talking to s_pain, a rapper and record producer from Ghana. Around us are other Ghanaians gathered around a small stall that sells, among other things, shots of Indian whiskey known to the alley regulars as “tears of the lion.”
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