【Book Talk】 One CHINA, Many TAIWANS. The Geopolitics of Cross-Strait Tourism
【Book Talk】 One CHINA, Many TAIWANS. The Geopolitics of Cross-Strait Tourism
Presenter：Ian Rowen (Associate Professor, Department of Taiwan Culture, Languages and Literature)
Presider：Hung, Po-Yi (Associate Professor, Department of Geography, NTU)
Register：https://reurl.cc/RvXOnZ
Time：2023.3.14. Tue 12:30-14:00
Venue：Room 108, College of Social Science, NTU/ Youtube
Abstract：
Venue：Room 108, College of Social Science, NTU/ Youtube
Abstract：
One China, Many Taiwans shows how tourism performs and transforms territory. In 2008, as the People’s Republic of China pointed over a thousand missiles across the Taiwan Strait, it sent millions of tourists in the same direction with the encouragement of Taiwan’s politicians and businesspeople. Contrary to the PRC’s efforts to use tourism to incorporate Taiwan into an imaginary “One China,” tourism aggravated tensions between the two polities, polarized Taiwanese society, and pushed Taiwanese popular sentiment farther toward support for national self-determination. The book’s ethnographic treatment of tourism as a political technology provides a new lens for social scientists and area specialists to examine the geopolitics of tourism, which has transformed the globe.
