{"id":1896,"date":"2015-11-06T13:50:04","date_gmt":"2015-11-06T12:50:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.zhdk.ch\/transculturalcollaboration\/?p=1896"},"modified":"2015-11-15T15:27:47","modified_gmt":"2015-11-15T14:27:47","slug":"cultural-identity-in-the-world-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.zhdk.ch\/transculturalcollaboration\/2015\/11\/06\/cultural-identity-in-the-world-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Cultural Identity in the World Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Lecture\u00a0by\u00a0Gordon Mathews<\/h2>\n<h4>Professor of anthropology at the Chinese University of Hong Kong<\/h4>\n<p>Who are we? \u00a0Today two contradictory discourses shape our cultural identities, those of the state and of the market. The state tells us that we should love our country, while the market tells us that we should love money and choice. \u00a0Both of these forces are based on lies, but because we are immersed in these discourses, we cannot easily see this. \u00a0Hong Kong is unusual in the world, in that it has long been based not on the discourse of the state, but only on that of the market.<\/p>\n<p>This accounts for some of the political turmoil in Hong Kong in recent years. \u00a0Are Hong Kong people, in their inability or refusal to follow the discourse of the state, blind as the rest of the world is not, or are they seers in a world that is blind?<\/p>\n<p>Gordon Mathews is a professor of anthropology at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He has written and edited various books, including 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 (with Eric Ma and Tai-lok Lui, 2008), and Ghetto at the Center of the World: Chungking Mansions, Hong Kong (2011).<a href=\"https:\/\/blog.zhdk.ch\/transculturalcollaboration\/files\/2015\/11\/Hong-Kong-764.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.zhdk.ch\/transculturalcollaboration\/files\/2015\/11\/Hong-Kong-764-e1447596034162.jpg\" alt=\"Hong Kong 764\" width=\"320\" height=\"426\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.zhdk.ch\/transculturalcollaboration\/files\/2015\/11\/Hong-Kong-766.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.zhdk.ch\/transculturalcollaboration\/files\/2015\/11\/Hong-Kong-766-e1447595986246.jpg\" alt=\"Hong Kong 766\" width=\"320\" height=\"427\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Thursday, November\u00a05\u00a0\u2013 7pm<br \/>\nConnecting Space Hong Kong<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lecture\u00a0by\u00a0Gordon Mathews Professor of anthropology at the Chinese University of Hong Kong Who are we? \u00a0Today two contradictory discourses shape our cultural identities, those of the state and of the market. The state tells us that we should love our country, while the market tells us that we should love money and choice. \u00a0Both of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.zhdk.ch\/transculturalcollaboration\/2015\/11\/06\/cultural-identity-in-the-world-today\/\" class=\"more-link\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u201eCultural Identity in the World Today\u201c <\/span>weiterlesen<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2387,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-allgemein"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.zhdk.ch\/transculturalcollaboration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.zhdk.ch\/transculturalcollaboration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.zhdk.ch\/transculturalcollaboration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.zhdk.ch\/transculturalcollaboration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2387"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.zhdk.ch\/transculturalcollaboration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1896"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/blog.zhdk.ch\/transculturalcollaboration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1970,"href":"https:\/\/blog.zhdk.ch\/transculturalcollaboration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1896\/revisions\/1970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.zhdk.ch\/transculturalcollaboration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.zhdk.ch\/transculturalcollaboration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.zhdk.ch\/transculturalcollaboration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}