TAAZE 讀冊生活名人推薦：
""A revelatory journey — imagine Walter Benjamin in Hong Kong — through the modern Asian mega-city and the labyrinth of its representations. Huang is a brilliant essayist and guerrilla geographer who doesn't hesitate to knock urban theory off its weary Eurocentric pedestal. The result is sensational."" — Mike Davis, author of City of Quartz and Ecology of Fear
""An intelligent and witty examination of the politics of space in the global city. The author brilliantly dissects how the expanding urban glamour zone relentlessly tightens the knot around the lived space of everyday life for a growing number of residents in Shanghai, Tokyo and Hong Kong."" — Saskia Sassen, author of Globalization and Its Discontents
""This book is a breakthrough study in English of the literary and cinematic representations of the Asian metropolis in the shadows of globalization. Drawing on literary, visual, and sociological sources, Michelle Huang elucidates the systematic straitjackets that constrain the body and the illusions that drug the mind. She shines a searching light on the gap between the glamorous mirage of infinite space of capital and the lived strata of the disadvantaged urban residents. This gap gives the lie to the promise of freedom by the myth of globalization. Huang reveals the individual’s unending struggle to wrestle with the rational, alienating imperative to restructure urban space and regulate the lived space and mobility of ordinary people."" — Ban Wang, author of The Sublime Figure of History: Aesthetics and Politics in 20th Century China
