Denise Y. Ho

Bio

Denise Y. Ho (何若書) is an Associate Professor in Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service, where she teaches modern Chinese history. She is the author of Curating Revolution: Politics on Display in Mao’s China, and a co-editor (with Jennifer Altehenger) of Material Contradictions in Mao’s China. Ho is currently completing a book manuscript entitled: The Nation’s Gate: A Cross-Border History of Hong Kong and China.

Research Interests: Social and cultural history of 20th-century China; museum history and material culture; urban history; borderlands; Hong Kong and South China