Lecture by Ian Rowen, National Taiwan Normal University
Monday, February 5, 2024
5:00 PM - 6:15 PM (Pacific Time)
Dodd Hall, Rm 147 & Online via Zoom
Ian Rowen is Associate Professor in the Department of Taiwan Culture, Languages, and Literature at National Taiwan Normal University. He is the author of One China, Many Taiwans: The Geopolitics of Cross-Strait Tourism (Cornell University Press, 2023) the editor of Transitions in Taiwan: Stories of the White Terror (Cambria Press, 2021), and the lead translator of Tibetan Environmentalists in China: The King of Dzi (Rowman & Littlefield, 2015). His co-edited volume (with Ti-han Chang and Darryl Sterk), A Taiwanese Eco-Literature Reader, is under contract with Columbia University Press. He previously served as Assistant Professor of Sociology, Geography, and Urban Planning at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He holds a PhD in Geography from the University of Colorado Boulder.
This lecture is presented in conjunction with the UCLA winter course "Asian Community: Border-Crossing, Diasporic Formation, and Social Transformation in the Asian World" (Sociology M139 / Asian American Studies M179), with generous funding from the Eurasia Foundation (from Asia).
The UCLA Taiwan in the World lecture series aims to promote Taiwan studies and disseminate knowledge about Taiwan in a global context and shed light on Taiwan’s political economy, international relations, and US-Taiwan-China relations, as well as Taiwan’s society, political system, social structure, and institutions.