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"Tibetan Environmentalists in China: The King of Dzi", co-translated by PhD Candidate Ian Rowen and Professor and Chair Emily Yeh , has been published by Lexington Books (Rowman and Littlefield). Originally written in Chinese journalist Liu Jianqiang, "this book weaves together the life stories of five extraordinary contemporary Tibetans involved...

Kathryn Wright and Ian Rowen have been selected as the 2015-2016 recipients of the Department's Gilbert White Fellowship. The fellowship provides dissertation writing support for a semester.

Ian writes about the political impacts of Chinese tourism to Taiwan and Hong Kong. BBC article in Chinese

Ian compares and contrasts spatial organization, tactics, and daily life in the Hong Kong Umbrella and Taiwan Sunflower Movements. New Bloom interview

Ian's piece discusses researcher risk and positionality in the context of his participant-observation of the Taiwan Sunflower and Hong Kong Umbrella Movements.

Ian Rowen quoted by the BBC about the backlash against Chinese tourists Read BBC article

Ian Rowen's article, "Inside Taiwan's Sunflower Movement: Twenty-Four Days in a Student-Occupied Parliament, and the Future of the Region", has been published in the February 2015 issue of The Journal of Asian Studies. His article, based on participant-observation and interviews, is the first scholarly English-language account of the 2014 student-led...

Ian received a one-month Summer Fellowship to the European Research Center on Contemporary Taiwan at Tubingen, Germany.

Ian was awarded a 2015 Dissertation Fellowship from the Taiwan Foundation for Democracy to support his project: "The politics of tourism between mainland China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong: Territory, identity, and democracy". The award includes a return flight to Taiwan, four months of support, and the opportunity to collaborate with...

Read Ian Rowen's article "Umbrella politics: What American Movements Can Learn from the Hong Kong Protests"