Drawing on personal memories, interviews, and archives, historian Taomo Zhou explores China’s transition to a market economy. In this dialogue with artist Ho Rui An, she delves into her research process and insights on migration, identity, and developmentalism within global history. To read the full article or find out more about A World of Lines, go to the link in our bio! ---------------------- This essay is developed as part of A World of Lines: From Third World Solidarities to Postsocialist Globalism, a discursive programme organised by Per°Form CoThink Lab Fellow Ho Rui An, which explored the shifting geopolitical imaginaries within what was known as the Third World during the historical period that began with the end of empire and culminated in the late seventies with the foreclosure of socialism as a mass political project. Ho Rui An is an artist and writer working in the intersections of contemporary art, cinema, performance and theory. Taomo Zhou is an award-winning write...