Today’s Author Spotlight from the Travel Geek, is Gordon Mathews. He wrote a book called Ghetto at the Center of the World. This book really appealed to me since I bought it while I was staying at the Chunking Mansion — the location the book discusses. It’s an odd place, that’s for sure. But nowhere near as odd as it becomes in Mathew’s world.
He’s a professor at Hong Kong University and has studied the place by staying at a room there (I think I read) at least once a week for three years preceding the book’s release — and presumably even longer. And while I don’t want to spoil it for you, I also don’t want you not knowing what an amazingly telling non-fiction this book really is.
From interviews with sex workers to anonymous inspirations from heroine traffickers, Mathews really digs in deep — almost as would an investigative journalist with a penchant for the underworld. And in that, he brings to the surface all the gritty details of the amazing goings-on with the big, white elephant stationed at the heart of the world’s foremost megatropolis.
Be sure to visit my photography website for HDR photos of Hong Kong. And support the blog and buy a print!
Here’s my video review of Mathews and his 2011 book, Ghetto at the Center of the World.
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