Taomo Zhou
Biographic Data
| ID | 3959254 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Taomo Zhou |
| GIVEN NAMES | Taomo |
| FAMILY NAME | Zhou |
| SIGNATURE | ZHOU T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Nanyang Technological University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4911-5066 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Post-Socialist Biotech: Labor, Value, and Risk in China's Transitional Economy
This article examines the development of a biotechnological industry in the context of China's transition from planned to market economy since 1979. It focuses on two biotech companies, Weiguang Biological Products Co., Ltd., and BGI, both headquartered in Shenzhen—China's first and most successful Special Economic Zone (SEZ). We argue that China's incomplete and incremental reform significantly shaped the forms and practices of a “post-socialist…
Boundary, bonds, and bridge: Afterword for special issue ‘Cold War China, decolonisation, and the post-colonial international order in Asia’
10.1080/14682745.2025.2517194
Paving the road ahead: Women in (post) colonial Southeast Asia
This Forum reflects the stimulating conversations we had as participants in a roundtable at the 2023 Boston meeting of the Association for Asian Studies. The discussion centred on the position of women (as both contributors and subjects) in competing visions of modernity in Southeast Asia. Our overall goals were to explore how women contributed to these visions and the extent to which their hopes were realised. In the process, numerous questions …
The Multidirectional Diaspora: Writing Chinese Migration History in a Time of Global Racial Reckoning
In On not speaking Chinese , cultural studies scholar Ien Ang characterizes migrant scholars as ‘tactical interventionists’; instead of making counter-hegemonic claims, they usually bring out the contradictions and the violence inherent in all posited truths. In the spirit of this claim, I thought long and hard about how to make the best use of my connections to both worlds – my lived experience of growing up in China and my access to academic re…
Dairy and diaspora: Postponed reform on the guangming overseas Chinese farm of Shenzhen
In 1973, four cows and one bull were shipped to Guangming Farm, an agricultural production base for China to supply fresh produce to British Hong Kong. The cattle’s human caretakers included Malayan, Indonesian, and Vietnamese Chinese expelled from Southeast Asia due to local ethnonationalist policies. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, Guangming was a state-directed productive space with prominent features of the planned economy, ironically inst…
Not Found: The reterritorialization of Sino‐Southeast Asian relations in the Chinese hinterland
Most existing studies use ‘reterritorialization’ to describe the outward expansion of Chinese power in Southeast Asia. This paper, however, flips this familiar narrative. It examines Sino‐Southeast Asian diplomacy hidden in the Chinese hinterland and embedded in the everyday. I focus on the landlocked province of Jiangxi, where the Chinese government created two enclaves for communist exiles and displaced diaspora respectively—both hailing from S…
The Lives of Cold War Afro-Asianism
From the genealogy of ideas used to strengthen Afro-Asian solidarity to the political economy of institutional finance and Cold War patronage, this book tells an interconnected set of stories of cultural and intellectual traffic in the post-colonial era
Revolution Offshore, Capitalism Onshore: Ships and the Changing Relationship between China and the World
From the Third Front to the Second Line: The Construction Soldiers of Shenzhen
Reinvented Revolutionaries: Indonesian and Filipino Communist Exiles in China
There is an abruptness to exile. Exile is defined far less by our distance from any particular place or people and far more by the consciousness that they are irrevocably unreachable. In counterpoint, our sense of cosmopolitanism rests not in the act of travel but in its possibility. It is for this reason, the curtailment not simply of travel but also the imagined possibility of travel, that the Covid-19 pandemic has bred a sense of exile around …
Leveraging Liminality: The Border Town of Bao'an (Shenzhen) and the Origins of China's Reform and Opening
Located immediately north of Hong Kong, Shenzhen is China's most successful special economic zone (SEZ). Commonly known as the "social laboratory" of reform and opening, Shenzhen was the foremost frontier for the People's Republic of China's adoption of market principles and entrance into the world economy in the late 1970s. This article looks at prototypes of the SEZ in Bao'an County, the precursor to Shenzhen during the Mao era (1949-76). Betwe…
Diaspora’s Homeland: Modern China in the Age of Global Migration, written by Shelly Chan
Migration in the Time of Revolution: China, Indonesia, and the Cold War
This book examines how two of the world's most populous countries interacted between 1945 and 1967, when the concept of citizenship was contested, political loyalty was in question, identity was fluid, and the boundaries of political mobilization were blurred. The book asks probing questions of this important period in the histories of the People's Republic of China and Indonesia. What was it like to be a youth in search of an ancestral homeland …
Bandung humanism and a new understanding of the Global South: An introduction
As one of the most significant events of the immediate post-colonial period, the 1955 Bandung Conference, officially known as the first Asia-Africa Conference (Konferensi Asia-Afrika), brought together delegates from twenty-nine newly independent states representing more than half the world’s population at the time.1 In addition to recent monographs and edited volumes,2 special issues of academic journals were published in 2015 and 2016 on the oc…
China and the Thirtieth of September Movement
Bandung humanism and a new understanding of the Global South: An introduction
As one of the most significant events of the immediate post-colonial period, the 1955 Bandung Conference, officially known as the first Asia-Africa Conference (Konferensi Asia-Afrika), brought together delegates from twenty-nine newly independent states representing more than half the world’s population at the time.1 In addition to recent monographs and edited volumes,2 special issues of academic journals were published in 2015 and 2016 on the oc…
Leveraging Liminality: The Border Town of Bao'an (Shenzhen) and the Origins of China's Reform and Opening
Located immediately north of Hong Kong, Shenzhen is China's most successful special economic zone (SEZ). Commonly known as the "social laboratory" of reform and opening, Shenzhen was the foremost frontier for the People's Republic of China's adoption of market principles and entrance into the world economy in the late 1970s. This article looks at prototypes of the SEZ in Bao'an County, the precursor to Shenzhen during the Mao era (1949-76). Betwe…
Dairy and diaspora: Postponed reform on the guangming overseas Chinese farm of Shenzhen
In 1973, four cows and one bull were shipped to Guangming Farm, an agricultural production base for China to supply fresh produce to British Hong Kong. The cattle’s human caretakers included Malayan, Indonesian, and Vietnamese Chinese expelled from Southeast Asia due to local ethnonationalist policies. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, Guangming was a state-directed productive space with prominent features of the planned economy, ironically inst…
China and the Thirtieth of September Movement
China and the Thirtieth of September Movement
Migration in the Time of Revolution: China, Indonesia, and the Cold War
This book examines how two of the world's most populous countries interacted between 1945 and 1967, when the concept of citizenship was contested, political loyalty was in question, identity was fluid, and the boundaries of political mobilization were blurred. The book asks probing questions of this important period in the histories of the People's Republic of China and Indonesia. What was it like to be a youth in search of an ancestral homeland …
Bandung humanism and a new understanding of the Global South: An introduction
As one of the most significant events of the immediate post-colonial period, the 1955 Bandung Conference, officially known as the first Asia-Africa Conference (Konferensi Asia-Afrika), brought together delegates from twenty-nine newly independent states representing more than half the world’s population at the time.1 In addition to recent monographs and edited volumes,2 special issues of academic journals were published in 2015 and 2016 on the oc…
Diaspora’s Homeland: Modern China in the Age of Global Migration, written by Shelly Chan
Revolution Offshore, Capitalism Onshore: Ships and the Changing Relationship between China and the World
From the Third Front to the Second Line: The Construction Soldiers of Shenzhen
Reinvented Revolutionaries: Indonesian and Filipino Communist Exiles in China
There is an abruptness to exile. Exile is defined far less by our distance from any particular place or people and far more by the consciousness that they are irrevocably unreachable. In counterpoint, our sense of cosmopolitanism rests not in the act of travel but in its possibility. It is for this reason, the curtailment not simply of travel but also the imagined possibility of travel, that the Covid-19 pandemic has bred a sense of exile around …
Leveraging Liminality: The Border Town of Bao'an (Shenzhen) and the Origins of China's Reform and Opening
Located immediately north of Hong Kong, Shenzhen is China's most successful special economic zone (SEZ). Commonly known as the "social laboratory" of reform and opening, Shenzhen was the foremost frontier for the People's Republic of China's adoption of market principles and entrance into the world economy in the late 1970s. This article looks at prototypes of the SEZ in Bao'an County, the precursor to Shenzhen during the Mao era (1949-76). Betwe…
Not Found: The reterritorialization of Sino‐Southeast Asian relations in the Chinese hinterland
Most existing studies use ‘reterritorialization’ to describe the outward expansion of Chinese power in Southeast Asia. This paper, however, flips this familiar narrative. It examines Sino‐Southeast Asian diplomacy hidden in the Chinese hinterland and embedded in the everyday. I focus on the landlocked province of Jiangxi, where the Chinese government created two enclaves for communist exiles and displaced diaspora respectively—both hailing from S…
The Lives of Cold War Afro-Asianism
From the genealogy of ideas used to strengthen Afro-Asian solidarity to the political economy of institutional finance and Cold War patronage, this book tells an interconnected set of stories of cultural and intellectual traffic in the post-colonial era
Dairy and diaspora: Postponed reform on the guangming overseas Chinese farm of Shenzhen
In 1973, four cows and one bull were shipped to Guangming Farm, an agricultural production base for China to supply fresh produce to British Hong Kong. The cattle’s human caretakers included Malayan, Indonesian, and Vietnamese Chinese expelled from Southeast Asia due to local ethnonationalist policies. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, Guangming was a state-directed productive space with prominent features of the planned economy, ironically inst…
Paving the road ahead: Women in (post) colonial Southeast Asia
This Forum reflects the stimulating conversations we had as participants in a roundtable at the 2023 Boston meeting of the Association for Asian Studies. The discussion centred on the position of women (as both contributors and subjects) in competing visions of modernity in Southeast Asia. Our overall goals were to explore how women contributed to these visions and the extent to which their hopes were realised. In the process, numerous questions …
The Multidirectional Diaspora: Writing Chinese Migration History in a Time of Global Racial Reckoning
In On not speaking Chinese , cultural studies scholar Ien Ang characterizes migrant scholars as ‘tactical interventionists’; instead of making counter-hegemonic claims, they usually bring out the contradictions and the violence inherent in all posited truths. In the spirit of this claim, I thought long and hard about how to make the best use of my connections to both worlds – my lived experience of growing up in China and my access to academic re…
Boundary, bonds, and bridge: Afterword for special issue ‘Cold War China, decolonisation, and the post-colonial international order in Asia’
10.1080/14682745.2025.2517194
Post-Socialist Biotech: Labor, Value, and Risk in China's Transitional Economy
This article examines the development of a biotechnological industry in the context of China's transition from planned to market economy since 1979. It focuses on two biotech companies, Weiguang Biological Products Co., Ltd., and BGI, both headquartered in Shenzhen—China's first and most successful Special Economic Zone (SEZ). We argue that China's incomplete and incremental reform significantly shaped the forms and practices of a “post-socialist…
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