Events

17 Jan 2019

7-9 pm

LT4, Yasumoto International Academic Park, CUHK

Prof. Gordon Mathews

Prof. Gordon Mathews is the Chairperson, Department of Anthropology, CUHK. His latest publications include The World in Guangzhou: Africans and Other Foreigners in South China’s Global Marketplace, Globalization From Below: The World’s Other Economy and Ghetto at the Center of the World.

http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/oge/gesalon

gefp@cuhk.edu.hk

This talk first goes over the meanings of ethnic and cultural identity, and then explores ethnic and cultural identity in Hong Kong. Can a South Asian who has grown up in Hong Kong be a Hongkonger? Can an African asylum seeker be a Hongkonger? Can a mainland Chinese graduate student at CUHK be a Hongkonger? Can I be a Hongkonger? What is a Hongkonger? On the basis of extensive discussion among all present at the talk, we then analyze how ethnic and cultural identity are increasingly not given but chosen, as choices from a global cultural supermarket. What, then, does this mean for the future of Hong Kong as a global/Chinese metropolis?

Free admission, all are welcome.

Organized by Office of University General Education, CUHK
Sponsored by General Education Foundation Development Fund