ABSTRACT
This chapter looks at the ways in which a diverse Yunnan community in Northern Taiwan tactically uses music, dance, and rituals to embody a cross-border culture and boost local tourism. This group comprises people of different ethnicities, cultures, religions, and linguistic traditions from the Thai-Myanmar borderlands who have come into contact at the political, economic, social, and cultural margins. In recent years, they have drawn from peculiar religious components from the Thai-Myanmar borderlands in order to turn their marginality to advantage. Using artistically and technologically creative devices, they have successfully developed a spectacular commercial zone named “Enchanted Golden Triangle” (meili ginsanjiao). It has also been termed an “exotic borderland” (yiyu) and has become a sought-after destination for cultural tourism.
