The Geopolitics of Tourism: Mobilities, Territory, and Protest in China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong

Rowen, Ian

doi:10.1080/00045608.2015.1113115

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“…In Hong Kong, another city which has been in the news with reports about 'anti-tourist protests', grassroots mobilizations are meanwhile -as anyone remotely familiar with the city is probably aware of -overwhelmingly concerned with tourists of a particular background. Against the backdrop of broader struggles around the relationship between the People's Republic of China and the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, it was the steep rise in mainland Chinese visitors, the number of which increased tenfold between 2000 and 2015, that generated contention and hostility among parts of Hong Kong's residents (Garrett, 2016;Rowen, 2016).…”

Section: Tourism ≠ Tourismmentioning

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Urban tourism as a bone of contention: four explanatory hypotheses and a caveat

Novy

2019

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Urban tourism as a bone of contention. Four explanatory hypotheses and a caveat * 1. * Acknowledgements: This commentary draws both from the presentations and discussions with conference participants at the seminar "Réinventer l'ordinaire : les fronts pionniers du tourisme. Lieux, acteurs, imaginaires" ar EIREST, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, on February 2, 2017 and the International Symposium "Reshaping European cities?-Exploring policies, practices and everyday realities concerning ‛Airbnbification'" at the University of Salzburg on November 25, 2017. Special acknowledgements also go to the anonymous reviewers for their valuable comments and directions to improve the quality of the paper.

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Section: Tourism ≠ Tourismmentioning

confidence: 99%

Urban tourism as a bone of contention: four explanatory hypotheses and a caveat

Novy

2019

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“…In 2001, the year of the Chong decision, 620 out of 48,219 live births (1.29 percent) in HK were born to mainland Chinese women without a HK resident spouse; by 2012, figures for these 'double-non' babies had risen to 26,715 out of 91,343 total live births (29.25 percent) (Department of Justice, 2013, Annex A). As HK-China relations worsened in the 2000s, public opinions turned sour toward Mainland Chinese migrants, especially these women and the intermediaries who help facilitate their arrivals in HK (Rowen, 2016;Yam, 2016). Facing public pressure, the HK government implemented a 'zero-quota' policy in 2013, prohibiting delivery bookings by Mainland Chinese women in HK public hospitals and denying entry to those pregnant and without prior travel approval.…”

Section: Histories Of Chinese Birth Tourismmentioning

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Intra-Asian infrastructures of Chinese birth tourism: agencies’ operations in China and Taiwan

Wang¹

2019

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This chapter focuses on the development of the Chinese birth tourism industry and its intra-Asian operations. It discusses Chinese birth tourism away from the United States. The chapter focuses on existing regional linkages, such as long-standing but small-scale informal birth tourism from Taiwan and a brief surge of Chinese birth tourism to Hong Kong in the 2000s, that buttress China–United States birth tourism networks. It also focuses on birth tourism agencies' operations in China and Taiwan. The chapter examines the emerging literature by providing empirics on Chinese birth tourism agencies' operations and, to a lesser extent, prospective birth tourists' experiences at these agencies. The chapter focuses on intra-Asian infrastructures of contemporary Chinese birth tourism industry, describing separately for birth agencies in China and Taiwan their modes of recruitment, clientele demographics and scales of operations. It demonstrates, contemporary ethnic Chinese birth tourism to the United States is overwhelmingly commercialised and draws its clientele from both sides of the Taiwan Strait.

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“…Taiwan's status is precarious. China maintains a constant military threat-as shown in military deployment planning (Easton, 2017) and a recent increase in air force encirclement drills (Reuters, 2017)-has increased efforts to persuade Taiwan's diplomatic allies to switch recognition (Gao, 2018) and pursues economic and cultural integration as annexation strategies (Rowen, 2016). Within this context, anxiety about the perceived leveraging of promised youth job security for political aims is understandable.…”

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Bricolage and the Evolution of Giftedness and Talent in Taiwan

紀博善¹,

Albanese²,

Yu³

et al. 2019

Handbook of Giftedness and Talent Development in the Asia-Pacific

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Discourse in Taiwan regarding talent development reflects anxiety, both from a government seeking to increase economic competitiveness and a populous striving for individual success amidst uncertainty. Identification and development of giftedness and talent within the mainstream education system has predominantly focussed on academic and intellectual giftedness and talent in select areas of the arts and sports, overlooking other potential. At the same time, efforts to reform Taiwan's education, which nominally aspire to move away from examinationbased education and towards a more inclusive appreciation of diverse abilities, have been met with controversy and resulted, paradoxically, in increased pressure for students. To help understand this paradox and further illuminate processes for social change, a sociocultural understanding of how Taiwanese society defines success and identifies and develops giftedness and talent is developed in this chapter. We argue that education in Taiwan is influenced by both meritocracy and a preference for harmonising rather than strictly revolutionary creativity and further posit such harmonising creative work a bricolage. We then discuss how these characteristics have shaped the evolution of GATE in Taiwan, both in mainstream education reform and GATE development, and in informal bricolage work on the margins, focussing in part on the role of competitions and contests in GATE and research. Finally, we close with a discussion of the implications of these findings and conceptual approach for understanding the evolution of GATE in Taiwan and other Confucian-influenced societies, along with methodological implications. Responding to calls to employ diverse methods of inquiry and simultaneously think methodologically and philosophically in education research, this chapter is itself a bricolage and thus affords a novel perspective on processes relevant to the evolution of giftedness and talent in Taiwan, as well as on the work of educational research in general.

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The Geopolitics of Tourism: Mobilities, Territory, and Protest in China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong

Cited by 51 publications

References 31 publications

Urban tourism as a bone of contention: four explanatory hypotheses and a caveat

Urban tourism as a bone of contention: four explanatory hypotheses and a caveat

Intra-Asian infrastructures of Chinese birth tourism: agencies’ operations in China and Taiwan

Bricolage and the Evolution of Giftedness and Talent in Taiwan

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