Professor Gordon Mathews has been teaching in the Department of Anthropology at The Chinese University of Hong Kong for the past twenty-two years, and is chairperson of the Department. Professor Mathews is the awardee of the Exemplary Teaching Award in General Education (2014) and the awardee of the Vice-Chancellor’s Exemplary Teaching Award (2001 & 2014). Professor Mathews has written books such as What Makes Life Worth Living? How Japanese and Americans Make Sense of Their Lives (1996), Global Culture/Individual Identity: Searching for Home in the Cultural Supermarket (2000) and Chungking Mansions: Ghetto at the Center of the World (2011), and edited and co-authored books on topics ranging from Hong Kong identity to the Japanese generation gap to the cross-cultural pursuit of happiness to the economics of low-end globalization. Professor Mathews is President of the Society for East Asian Anthropology, American Anthropological Association. Professor Mathews teaches a class of asylum seekers every Saturday at Chungking Mansions.