Reading L anyu's tourism landscape: Hybridity and identity on O rchid I sland, T aiwan

This article analyses the creation and implications for cultural identity of a hybrid tourism landscape on T aiwan's O rchid I sland ( L anyu). It particularly argues that L anyu's native T ao people have begun to gain a somewhat stronger cultural identity and autonomy through this landscape. O rchid I sland underwent rapid modernization within the past 60 years. The article not only shows how tourism was imposed by T aiwan's government, but also how the T ao have made greater use of tourism's landscape over time for their own purposes. Not without sociocultural problems and contradictions, L anyu's tourism landscape has been polysemic enough to allow for gradually improving relationships between T aiwanese and T ao and for gradually increasing T ao participation in modernity on their own terms.