Chinese tourists in Taiwan: Tourism and state territoriality

Monday, March 11 at noon in Guggenheim 201E This brown bag event will feature a talk by Ian Rowen, Ph.D. candidate, Department of Geography. After years of travel bans, and despite an ongoing dispute over sovereignty and territory, Chinese tourists have poured into Taiwan since 2008. Tourism is producing multiple sensations of stateness in Taiwan and exacerbating contradictions between China and Taiwan’s programs of state territorialization.