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. Consequently,
Taiwan was performed as a part of China for Chinese group tourists
versus experienced as a place of everyday life. Taiwan's national
identity grew increasingly plural, such that not just one or two,
but many Taiwans coexisted, even as it faced an existential
military threat. Ian Rowen's treatment of tourism as a political
technology provides a new theoretical lens for social scientists to
examine the impacts of tourism in the region and worldwide. --
Cornell University Press
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