Talk:Chungking Mansions

message: My edit removes "often pirated" in the article simply because Hong Kong enforces the law, and the permananent stallholders in HK sell DVDs and VCDs inexpensively but NOT illegally for the most part. This trade is mostly found in Shenzen at open air stalls.
It may give the tourist set a *frisson* to think that they are getting an illegal deal by buying Lilo and Stitch or some other movie adequate to their attention span for ten HK dollars but prices are comparable to budget outlets in the USA. 
There is something vulgar about running about Asia expecting shopowners to risk their livelihoods by selling hot goods.
You backpacker punks will buy hot DVDs while condemning the people who live in the Mansions as ali babas and thieves. This is just wrong.Spinoza1111 05:00, 13 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: The VCDs and DVDs in Hong Kong are cheap but not pirated in most cases

message: Edward G. NilgesSpinoza1111 05:31, 12 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Note on the POV of the last paragraph about Incurable Romantics

message: Spinoza1111 13:28, 15 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: A minor edit

message: Hello,
I took out the paragraph about "incurable romantics". It was nicely written, but absolutely inappropriate for an encyclopedia; lyrical, philosophical, novelist. Certainly there are other places for publishing these thoughts; this article isn't.
Spinoza1111 06:37, 24 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  "incurable romantics" is nonsense 

message: I have today deleted the laundry list of companies and guest houses from the article. None of them are notable in any way, it invites would-be visitors and owners to list their "guest house" and contact details, so the list completely unencyclopaedic. 
Also, it was categorised as a Hotel, but the building itself is not a hotel. Thirdly, none of the external links would pass muster as a reliable source, so have been removed. Ohconfucius 05:32, 6 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Laundry lists, external links and categorisation

message: Gordon Mathews, Ghetto At The Center Of The World: Chungking Mansions, Hong Kong. University of Chicago Press (Jun 2011), paperback, 256 pages. I don't have a copy yet  (as it is not published). m.e. (talk) 05:22, 23 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  New book: Mathews,  Ghetto At The Center Of The World 

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message: Good source - SCMP interview with the chair of the building management for 24 years, and charmingly committed to the place .220.246.177.209 (talk) 05:09, 23 May 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  SCMP story