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Ian Rowen, "One China, Many Taiwans: The Geopolitics of Cross-Strait Tourism" (Cornell UP, 2023)

New Books in Anthropology

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Tourism in Taiwan - A Brief History

This chapter describes this incredibly rapid growth how tourism went from basically zero to millions per year. Cross-straight flights started opening up that you could now fly both Taiwanese and China airlines directly from China to Taiwan which didn't happen before except on very limited charter flights. There were all kinds of improvisations being made on the Taiwan side to kind of vet the whether these tourists should enter. The tourism industry often had very deep personal and business ties as well to the TMT leading to some very interesting conflicts of interest.

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