Ethnic and Cultural Identity in Hong Kong and the World

通識沙龍2018-19「家‧鄉‧歸」

Ethnic and Cultural Identity in Hong Kong and the World
主講：Gordow Mathews
主持：楊陽

講座簡介

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?

講者簡介

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.

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