The World in Guangzhou – Africans and Other Foreigners in South China’s Global Marketplace: Gordon Mathews
Only decades ago, the population of Guangzhou was almost wholly Chinese. Today, it is a truly global city, a placeContinue Reading
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Will China have its own Barack Obama?: Gordon Mathews | TEDxXiguan
There are two kinds of belongings to a country, base on ethnic identity or civic identity. In this thought-provoking talk,Continue Reading
[Book Review] The World in Guangzhou: Africans and Other Foreigners in South China’s Global Marketplace
It’s not Shanghai. It’s Guangzhou that is China’s new New York. The southern Chinese megalopolis is the 21st-century “land ofContinue Reading
[Research] African entrepreneurs have made Guangzhou a truly global city
By Gordon Mathews for qz Africa There are certain cities in certain eras that stand out as magnets for thoseContinue Reading
[Research] African Logistics Agents and Middlemen as Cultural Brokers in Guangzhou #SinoAfrica
Gordon Mathews (2016). Journal of Current Chinese Affairs.
[Research] Special Issue on Africans in Guangzhou @ Journal of Current Chinese Affairs
Foreign Lives in a Globalising City: Africans in Guangzhou Special issue on ‘Africans in Guangzhou’ guest edited by anthropologist, GordonContinue Reading
[Research] How to evade states and slip past borders: lessons from traders, overstayers, and asylum seekers in Hong Kong and China >>EXCERPT<<
By Gordon Mathews, Dan Lin and Yang Yang (2014) City and Society.
[Research] Africans in Guangzhou (China): recent academic resources list
Over the last two years, I have received several emails asking me for resources and bibliography about Africans in China,Continue Reading
