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DESCRIPTION:How Migrants Made Markets: Shenzhen and China's Reform and Open
 ing \nTaomo Zhou\, Associate Professor\, National University of Singapore 
 \nWhite Hall - 106\n10:10-11:25 am\n\nLocated immediately north of Hong Ko
 ng\, Shenzhen is China’s first and most successful special economic zone
  (SEZ) and is often celebrated as the “social laboratory” of reform an
 d opening. Official narratives credit visionary decisions by Beijing’s t
 op leaders for transforming an impoverished border town into a global tech
 nology hub and the “Silicon Valley of the East.” This talk offers a mo
 re complicated account. I argue that Shenzhen represented a distinct post-
 socialist project of economic sovereignty in which migrants created market
 s for the state. Focusing on the Overseas Chinese Farm as a key zonal inst
 itution\, the talk examines how two marginalized migrant groups—Southeas
 t Asian Chinese refugees and ethnic minority women from China’s hinterla
 nd—were mobilized to drive Shenzhen’s development while being systemat
 ically excluded from its long-term gains. Through a comparative analysis o
 f Guangming Overseas Chinese Livestock Farm’s transformation from a dair
 y operation into a biotechnology innovation hub and the parallel evolution
  of Overseas Chinese Town into a state-led cultural and tourism complex\, 
 the talk shows how migrant labor incubated technological innovation\, gene
 rated export revenue\, and advanced nationalist agendas\, even as these co
 mmunities were ultimately dispossessed through China’s dualistic citizen
 ship regime and state-controlled land system.\n \n\nTaomo Zhou (Ph.D. Corn
 ell 2015) is an Associate Professor in the Department of Chinese Studies a
 nd Dean’s Chair in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences\, National Un
 iversity of Singapore. Her first book\, Migration in the Time of Revolutio
 n: China\, Indonesia and the Cold War (Cornell University Press\, 2019)\, 
 won a Foreign Affairs “Best Books of 2020” award and an Honorable Ment
 ion for the 2021 Harry J. Benda Prize from the Association for Asian Studi
 es. Taomo is currently working on her second book project tentatively enti
 tled “Made in Shenzhen: A Global History of China’s First Special Econ
 omic Zone\,” which is under advance contract with Stanford University Pr
 ess. She is also researching on motherhood during the Cold War.
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SUMMARY:How Migrants Made Markets: Shenzhen and China's Reform and Opening 
URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.cornell.edu/event/how-migrants-made-markets-sh
 enzhen-and-chinas-reform-and-opening
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