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An extraordinary event happened in Chungking Mansions last Saturday. Well over a thousand Hong Kong Chinese people came to the building and participated in free tours conducted by ethnic minority social workers; most also stayed for dinner, causing long good-natured lines of prospective diners to form, waiting for their turn to sample Chungking Mansions’ ethnic […]
Author Archives: Gordon Mathews
Gordon Mathews is professor and chair of the Department of Anthropology at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He has written Ghetto at the Center of the World: Chungking Mansions, Hong Kong. He is now finishing a book on senses of life after death in the United States, Japan, and China.