Gordon Mathews
Professor, Chinese University of Hong KongGordon Mathews is professor in the Department of Anthropology at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He has written or co-written What Makes Life Worth Living?: How Japanese and Americans Make Sense of Their Worlds (1996), Global Culture/Individual Identity: Searching for Home in the Cultural Supermarket (2001), Hong Kong, China: Learning to Belong to a Nation (2008), Ghetto at the Center of the World: Chungking Mansions, Hong Kong (2011), and The World in Guangzhou: Africans and Other Foreigners in South China's Global Marketplace (2017).
Articles by Gordon Mathews
Society
A matter of life and death in the US, China and Japan
Views on the afterlife interestingly shed light on one's approach to life, says Gordon Mathews of The Chinese University of Hong Kong. He and his team find out what American, Chinese and Japanese views on death say about their lives. As the Covid-19 epidemic rages across the world, an understanding of different countries' philosophies on mortality may even be more apt.
Gordon Mathews
17 Feb 2020