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DESCRIPTION:Gatty Lecture Series\n\nJoin us for a talk by Taomo Zhou\, Asso
 ciate Professor of Chinese Studies\, National University of Singapore. \n\n
 This Gatty Lecture will take place at The Kahin Center\, 640 Stewart Ave. L
 unch will be served. For questions\, contact seapgatty@cornell.edu.\n\nAbst
 ract\nMotherhood—one of the most important and yet mundane social instituti
 ons—is central to our understanding of the latter half of the twentieth cen
 tury. This talk focuses on a left-wing Indonesian activist in the Afro-Asia
 n movements\, Francisca Casparina Fanggidaej (1925–2013)\, a mother of seve
 n who endured decades of forced separation from her family. Based on a clos
 e reading of Fanggidaej’s diaries\, personal letters\, and oral history int
 erviews with her family and friends\, I discuss the politics of maternal ab
 sence in Indonesia and China—two leading countries in the Afro-Asian moveme
 nts. I explore how these two countries shaped the public and self-perceptio
 ns of non-residential mothers through their welfare provisions and reproduc
 tive policies\; and how a transnational figure like Fanggidaej navigated mo
 therhood within frameworks of revolutionary anticolonialism in Indonesia\, 
 state socialism in China\, and the global rise of capitalist neoliberalism\
 , which ultimately displaced the Third World internationalist vision once c
 hampioned by both nations. I argue that the fall of Third World internation
 alism signaled not only a missed opportunity to reconfigure global geopolit
 ics\, but also a lost chance to redefine motherhood—not as the individualiz
 ed enterprise of the birth mother alone but as a communal effort involving 
 an assemblage of caretakers regardless of kinship or gender.\n\nAbout the S
 peaker\nTaomo Zhou is an Associate Professor in the Department of Chinese S
 tudies and Dean’s Chair in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences\, Nation
 al University of Singapore. Her first book\, Migration in the Time of Revol
 ution: China\, Indonesia and the Cold War (Cornell University Press\, 2019)
 \, won a Foreign Affairs “Best Books of 2020” award and an Honorable Mentio
 n for the 2021 Harry J. Benda Prize from the Association for Asian Studies.
  Taomo is currently working on her second book project tentatively entitled
  “Made in Shenzhen: A Global History of China’s First Special Economic Zone
 \,” which is under advance contract with Stanford University Press. She is 
 also researching on motherhood during the Cold War.
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SUMMARY:Mother\, Border\, Other: Third World Internationalism and the Polit
 ics of Motherhood in Indonesia and China
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 ationalism-and-the-politics-of-motherhood-in-indonesia-and-china
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