Gordon Mathews: 5 books
Ghetto at the Center of the World
Chungking Mansions, Hong Kong
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
There is nowhere else in the world quite like Chungking Mansions, a dilapidated seventeen-story commercial and residential structure in the heart of Hong Kong’s tourist district. A remarkably motley group of people call the building home; Pakistani phone stall operators, Chinese guesthouse workers,...
The World in Guangzhou
Africans and Other Foreigners in South China’s Global Marketplace
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2017
Only decades ago, the population of Guangzhou was almost wholly Chinese. Today, it is a truly global city, a place where people from around the world go to make new lives, find themselves, or further their careers. A large number of these migrants are small-scale traders from Africa who deal in Chinese...
Global Culture/Individual Identity
Searching for Home in the Cultural Supermarket
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2002
Most people still think of themselves as belonging to a particular culture. Yet today, many of us who live in affluent societies choose aspects of our lives from a global cultural supermarket, whether in terms of food, the arts or spiritual beliefs. So if roots are becoming simply one more consumer...
Hong Kong, China
Learning to belong to a nation
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2007
The idea of ‘national identity’ is an ambiguous one for Hong Kong. Returned to the national embrace of China on 1 July 1997 after 150 years as a British colony, the concept of national identity and what it means to "belong to a nation" is a matter of great tension and contestation...
Of Gratitude & Happiness - The Thanksgiving Storybook
60+ Holiday Tales & Poems: An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving, The Genesis of the Doughnut Club, The Purple Dress, Thankful, The Kingdom Of Greedy, The Night before Thanksgiving, The Master of the Harvest…
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2018
Enjoy this meticulously edited collection, dedicated to the holiday of gratefulness and forgiveness: An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving (Louisa May Alcott) Aunt Susanna's Thanksgiving Dinner (Lucy Maud Montgomery) The Genesis of the Doughnut Club (Lucy Maud Montgomery) Two Thanksgiving Day Gentlemen (O....