Gordon Mathews

Author of Ghetto at the Center of the World: Chungking Mansions, Hong Kong

About the Author

Gordon Mathews is professor of anthropology at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He is the author of Global Culture/Individual Identity: Searching for Home in the Cultural Supermarket and What Makes Life Worth Living? How Japanese and Americans Make Sense of Their Worlds, coauthor of Hong Kong, show more China: Learning to Belong to a Nation, and coeditor of several books. show less

Works by Gordon Mathews

What Makes Life Worth Living?: How Japanese and Americans Make Sense of Their Worlds (1996) 17 copies

Japan's Changing Generations: Are Young People Creating a New Society? (Japan Anthropology Workshop Series) (2003) — Editor — 11 copies, 1 review

Globalization from Below: The World's Other Economy (2012) 11 copies

Pursuits of Happiness: Well-Being in Anthropological Perspective (2008) 8 copies

Global Culture/Individual Identity: Searching for Home in the Cultural Supermarket (2000) 7 copies

Hong Kong, China: Learning to Belong to a Nation (2007) 7 copies

Consuming Hong Kong (2001) 6 copies

The World in Guangzhou: Africans and Other Foreigners in South China's Global Marketplace (2017) 6 copies

Shi jie zhong xin de pin min ku : Xianggang Chongqing da sha (2013) 3 copies

Life After Death Today in the United States, Japan, and China (2023) 1 copy

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Japan's Changing Generations: Are young people creating a new society? by Gordon Mathews

Recent collection of essays on Japanese youth culture. Kotani Satoshi's essay, "Why are Japanese youth today so passive?" is particularly illuminating.

Feb 21, 2007